Blogs

Tomorrow, Cloud Computing Seminar in Kajaani at Biorex, 8 - 12. Reporting about details from the seminar during the day.

I'm reading their home page: "From the beginning, the goals of Victory Energy have been to be a single-source solutions provider backed by superior service. Our commitment to customer satisfaction continues to guide our core values. Today, we are a leading boiler supplier offering custom solutions through advanced technologies and state-of-the-art manufacturing. Through our in-house sales team and a strong network of independent representatives, Victory Energy has grown to serve clients across the globe."

VE Blog posting: "When evaluating potential industrial boiler suppliers it is important to gain an understanding of how involved the supplier is with all phases of any given boiler project. Do they design the boiler? Do they engineer the boiler? Do they manufacture the boiler? Do they transport and install the boiler? Can they provide routine maintenance?  These are all questions that should be answered when making a decision on industrial boiler suppliers."

Their Corporate headquarters located in Collinsville, Oklahoma.

In 1999, a small company began with a big concept: To set the bar higher by building better, cleaner, more innovative boilers with an extra degree of customer service.

Victory Energy started with a handful of contracts, and very quickly started to grow. By 2007, Victory had become one of the top manufacturers of boilers and HRSGs for the ethanol industry.

That year, VE established a strategic focus on diversification, answering the call from the oil and gas, utility, institutional, food, chemical, biomass, and pulp/paper industries.

Source: Exhibitor List, Victory Energy Home Page

In order to sell and support measurement and analysers on a global scale, it requires a network of international expertise to cover a multitude of technologies and applications.

Thanks to active media reporting and digital storytelling, advanced process control solutions will receive more attention.

Picture: Ongelman Omistaja = The Problem Owner

We interact with networking partners and provide an excellent knowledge base to "problem owners" around the globe.Today, as many as two billion people live in countries with inadequate water supply. Bad news concerning the environment is becoming more and more frequent in today's world.

• The media has brought the problems and issues to our living rooms and work stations, but solutions to problems are not easy to find.
• The aim of Biotechtouch is to benefit our clients, the environment and the society through active reporting of problem areas and connecting on a local level with the problem owners.
  
  
• We help to sell, deliver and support environmentally-friendly process control solutions.
• The ability to combine new ideas in a radical way, through close to clients application research and on-site support, makes us unique and a significant asset in meeting environmental and process control challenges.

Work driven by curiosity has led to the discovery of new application areas where proven measurement technologies and principles can be used.

• How to resolve significant future challenges
• Improving the visibility of products and services
• Effectively exploiting sleeping knowledge potentials around the globe
• Building local micro networks with strong competence (hyper local)
• Building publicity and brand awareness for the solutions

Technologies that might slow down or even solve environmental problems are in increasing demand. Many raw materials are becoming scarce; reuse and recycling may help for a short time, but only marginally in the long run.

New ways of thinking and new technologies are needed to avoid overloading the environment with emissions and to prevent the extinction of natural resources. We're highly committed to developing sustainable process control solutions in creative collaboration with our technology partners.

The range of possible applications is vast:

• Bioenergy
• Water treatment
• Waste management
• Mining operations
• Food production
• Pyrolysis
• Process industries

Picture: World Water Week front page (2011)

Municipal wastewater effluents is one of the largest sources of pollution, by volume, being discharged to surface water bodies in coastal countries. New and more efficient wastewater treatment biotechnologies for pollutant removal are therefore needed to maintain water quality standards in receiving water bodies and to meet regulatory requirements.

Entering the second decade of this century, thousands of small, large, medium and mega-sized cities are growing rapidly and redrawing the water map. At this crucial junction, water and development experts and practitioners need to work side by side with those who will show the urban fabrics which largely dictate the direction water flows.

This morning, I learned that the Talvivaara mining complex doesn't have waste water treatment plant. Millions of cubic metres or water are flowing to the rivers and lakes without proper wastewater treatment. Problems are always recognized with a delay due to slow monitoring of water quality.

Source: www.worldwaterweek.org and Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

Biomass from plant material is the most abudant and widespread renewable raw material for sustainable production of clean and affordable biofuels, biopower, and high-value bioproducts.

Picture: Helge V. Keitel, KK-Net, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (2013)

Lignocellulosic materials from forest, agriculture, set-aside lands or industry, mainly made up of lignin, cellulose, and hemicelluloses, are potential feedstocks for bioprocess utilization.

Calibrate it with regular tap water and and empty container.

In power generation, fuel moisture is the main measured quality. The Metso "Kajaani" Moisture Analyzer promises customers enhanced productivity.

It's achieved with a rapid and reliable moisture content measurement.

• Metso measures moisture in two minutes
• Existing methods can take 16 - 24 hours

The Metso MR Moisture Analyzer accurately measures the water content of bulk materials such as wood- based samples:

• Whole tree chips
• forest residue chips
• peat
• straw
• grains
• willow
• minerals
• foodstuffs
• sludges

Measuring moisture more accurately at power plants, for example, can determine the true heat value of incoming biofuel better. This helps evaluate its true energy content and value to optimize boiler operation for enhanced productivity. With the new Metso MR Moisture Analyzer, it is possible to accurately measure the water content of virtually any bulk material. www.metso.com/mrmoisture

Picture: Helge V. Keitel, KK-Net, Sotkamo, Finland (11.4.2013)

The group of 21 bioenergy visitors are looking at a biogas power generation unit in Rheinland-Pfalz. Germans are building a lucrative clean & green tech industry around everything related to sustainable energy.

Turboden ORC

Brussels, 18th-19th April 2013. Cogeneration is generally recognised as a strategic energy choice for Europe, to contribute to stimulating economic growth, job creation and reduction of CO2 emissions.

On 18th-19th April, COGEN Europe celebrated its 20th anniversary at the COGEN Europe Annual Conference.

The Conference is traditionally Europe’s largest annual cogeneration gathering and offers an unique platform for policymakers, business and energy professionals to meet and discuss the challenges and contributions of cogeneration to EU energy policy.

Eng. Marco Baresi, Institutional Relations Manager of Turboden, delivered a speech on 19th April, examining cities and bioenergy cogeneration.

Picture: Helge V. Keitel, KK-Net, Rheinland-Pfalz (April 2013)

We'd a great Bioenergy trip to Germany with a group of 21 persons, Irja and myself included. I'll be writing about the destinations and technolgies during the coming weeks.

The picture features us during the second evening in Germany on the way to a local restaurant. It was great fun.