Abstract :
The Danish utilities Elsam and Elkraft planned to build a small (7 MWe) IGCC-plant in
Denmark, called Biocycle Project, based on the gasification and gas clean-up technology of Enviropower
Inc. EU/THERMIE program committed to finance part of the investment. The project, however,
was not feasible due to the difficulty of finding a suitable customer and sufficient amount of reasonably
priced biomass. For this reason a new host and site was found for the Biocycle project. The new site
was in Kotka, Finland, where Kotka Energy Ltd., the Energy Board of the City of Kotka acted as the
main partner. The fuel of the IGCC project would have been sugar mill wood residue from Xyrofin
Inc. During the feasibility investigation (project definition phase) Xyrofin Inc. made the decision to
change the production process which eliminated the wood waste production. Without no-cost fuel and
due to the low electricity price in Finland the small size IGCC power plant proved not to be feasible.
