The EC-ASEAN COGEN Programme
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Biomass co-generation
The European Commission-ASEAN COGEN Programme brings together the industrial sectors of the South East Asian countries and European suppliers of co-generation equipment. The programme informs potential technology buyers of opportunities in co-generation and assists governments in the process of regulatory reform to promote co generation.
COGEN helped advance the Chia Meng Rice Mill cogeneration project in Thailand. Commissioned in 1997, the mill's 2.5 MW rice husk co-generationplant demonstrates the viability of biomass co-generation technology. Disposing of rice husks is an expensive process and an environmental problem. Burning rice husks in a co-generation plant on the rice mill site kills two birds with one stone. It solves the disposal problem, and generates electricity for use in the mill and for sale to the grid. Thailand has more than 50 large rice mills with capacity of more than 100 tons of rice per day. Chia Meng's success has led other mill owners to consider biomass cogeneration.
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