H3-CHP Clean Energy Systems
329 East County Road34, Ruthven, Ontario, Canada

AR3C International client H3-CHP’s gasification system can utilize many types of feedstocks to create producer gas, which is then used to fuel internal combustion engine/genset combination units to produce electricity, heat and CO2 as plant growing inputs to enhance photosynthesis or for other process input requirements. As part of AR3C’s & H3-CHP’s ongoing engineering and development efforts to provide a broad range of fuel type options for clients, H3-CHP has developed a producer gas that utilizes densified and briquetted bio-mass sourced from plant vines and stalks. These vines and stalks originate from vegetable greenhouse crops when the growing season has ended. Using the vines and stalks as bio-fuel diverts them from area landfills. The producer gas has undergone testing at the University of Windsor’s Combustion Technologies and Advanced Thermodynamic Laboratory, Center for Engineering Innovations. There, they have equipment that tests for flame formation attributes such as distance over time and advanced instrumentation and high speed cameras to record data and footage. The results of the flame testing revealed that the energy content of a combustible air/fuel mixture of the H3-CHP producer gas is almost the same as the energy content of a propane air combustible mixture. Therefore, the producer gas can efficiently power H3-CHP’s combine heat and power (CHP) units. AR3C International client H3-CHP is proud to offer the bio-mass derived producer gas as an additional fuel option for clients who wish to power their CHP units with bio-mass derived fuels.

• H3 Combined Heat and Power is a clean technology company and energy co-generation experts that offers co-generation systems with advanced gasification system technology initial stage processing that can render any solid fuel type from biomass to separated municipal solid waste into a consistent energy content syngas that is suitable as a fuel for the system’s generation engine. System output specification range is from 250kW – 1,200kW with multiple unit scaling available for any power requirements.
• Our advanced, unique and reliable systems are designed to the highest standards and encompass pre-engineered and modular components that can be deployed and commissioned at your chosen site expeditiously and efficiently.
• H3-CHP is located in Kingsville, Ontario in Canada and includes design, manufacturing and shipping facilities. As we are located in the Automotive manufacturing hub of North America, we are able to access and utilize an extensive array of supplier partners and firms that affords us the ability achieve scale and delivery requirements for any size order. Our supplier relationships result in project engineering, fabrication, testing and commissioning standards to be comparable or to exceed those of the automotive industry.

BIOMASS GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGY

The gasification process includes a precision engineered and fabricated biomass conversion system that has unmatched efficiency and environmental benefits.  It is an advanced and advantageous method used to convert wood waste, biosolids, solid waste and most organic based feedstocks into a syngas fuel for co-generation of electrical and thermal energy.  The 3i Engineering Gasification is a fixed bed, linear downdraft gasifier and produces a high quality gas suitable for any application, including fuel for internal combustion engines, turbines and heat applications.  It has no moving parts and is designed and fabricated to rigid specifications and from the highest quality stainless steel and titanium.  The 3i Engineering Gasification utilizes a process that reaches optimum temperatures minutes after startup, producing a high octane, tar-free gas. High (1,200°C to 1,300°C) temperatures ensure near-complete decomposition or cracking of the feedstock material and any otherwise undesirable compounds, thus ensuring an environmentally friendly producer gas that is suitable for any application.  To satisfy increasingly strict emissions regulations, engines that utilize alternative gaseous fuels are now widely used. Natural gas and synthesis gas appear to be greener alternatives for internal combustion engines. In many situations where the price of petroleum-derived fuels is high or where supplies are unreliable, the syngas, for example, can provide an economically viable solution. Syngas is produced by gasifying a solid fuel feedstock such as coal or biomass. The gasification of biomass means near-complete combustion of biomass resulting in production of combustible gases. Syngas consists of about 40% combustible gases, mainly carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2) and methane (CH4). The rest are non-combustible gases and consists mainly of nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Varying proportions of CO2, H2O, N2, and CH4 may be present.  H2 as a main component of a syngas has very clean burning characteristics, a high flame propagation speed and wide flammability limits. H2 has a laminar combustion speed about eight times greater than that of natural gas, providing a reduction of combustion duration and as a result, an increase in the efficiency of internal combustion (IC) engines, if the H2 content in the gaseous fuel increases. The main point of interest in increasing H2 content in the gaseous fuel is that with the addition of H2, the lean limit of the gas operation can be extended, without going into the lean misfire region. Lean mixture combustion has a great potential to achieve higher thermal efficiency and lower emissions. In particular, the lean mixture combustion will result in low and even extremely low NOx levels with only a slight increase in hydrocarbons.

H3-CHP is dedicated to designing, developing and commissioning systems for its clients that provides stable, reliable, cost effective clean energy while helping to mitigate:

• reliance on centralized fossil-fueled utility power generation and distribution systems
• energy utility capacity and availability issues

BIOMASS BRIQUETTING

Mechanical briquetting press is a pressing and forming machine for compressing the wood chips, sawdust, crop straws and forest residual into solid fuel with a whole process including crushing, compressing, forming and etc. It’s usually used in large industry for making biofuel briquettes, so it can also be named industrial briquette maker or industrial briquette press.  This industry briquette maker machine is characterized by low power consumption, easy to operate, high production efficiency, long service life and low maintenance frequency. Sawdust briquette could substitute for conventional energy like coal and oil.  It is widely used in the heating system, residential cooking, fireplace and flue-cured tobacco by industrial tobacco producing grower, governments, enterprises and domestic services. Also, it is a good feedstock used in biomass power plants.

AR3C INVEST IS THE SOLE PROVIDER OF FINANCING FOR H3-CHP CLEAN POWER SYSTEMS

AR3C Invest partners with businesses, communities and stakeholders whose operations, products and services are compatible with AR3C Invest’s mandate and  client mandates. These include financing of projects that offer positive and beneficial social, economic and environmental outcomes.

MINIMAL EMISSIONS

H3-CHP’s proprietary design captures the generating engine’s exhaust gases and then extracts and separates CO2 compounds and other exhaust gases into 2 separate streams. The CO2 stream is made available for end user purposes such as industrial process or greenhouse crop growing inputs.  The remaining exhaust gases are directed as an input stream for the gasification process.  The gasification node maintains a 1,200ËšC process temperature where NOX is almost completely eliminated via thermochemical decomposition.  Any returned CO2 compounds are decomposed in the gasification process to be combusted in syngas form in the generating engines.