Blue Energy 20 maart 2014 REDstack

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Blue Energy

Developments on

Afsluitdijk Test facility for RED

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Session Blue Energy

Dutch Power Meeting March 2014

Rik Siebers

March 20, 2014

[email protected]

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Contents

• History

• REDstack

• Market expectations

• Afsluitdijk project

• Afsluitdijk photoshoot

• Questions

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History (1)

• 2005 Foundation REDstack BV

• 2006 - … Fundamental Research Wetsus

• 2007 – 2010 First tests on surface water

• December 2011 Public Funding Afsluitdijk project

• May 2012 Private Funding

• May 2012 Start Design Process Afsluitdijk-plant

• June 2013 Permits obtained + start building

• September 2013 First buffer tank in place

• Expected: April 2014 Start experiments Afsluitdijk

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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History (2)

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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REDstack (1)

• Company founded in 2005, office in Sneek

• 10 employees – 6 FTE

• Funding

– Private, shareholders

– Public, subsidies (regional, national and EU)

• Shareholder structure

– W&F Magneto, Production of Special Anodes

– A. Hak, Contractor and Builder for Transportation Solutions

– Alliander, Manage and Design Energy Infrastructures

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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REDstack (2)

Characteristics of RED technology: • Electricity production from salt/fresh water

• No fossil fuels involved, no CO2-emissions

• No chimneys or high buildings

• Sustainable, no back-up required

• Contributes to political targets

Goal of REDstack: • Development

• Up-scaling

• Commercialization

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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REDstack (3) Technology Schematic representation of the RED process

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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REDstack (4) Technology

• Challenges of the RED pilot and demo phase

– Stack improvement

– Membrane improvement

– Facing real surface water (salt and fresh)

– (Bio) Fouling

– Cost reduction

– Environmental impact studies

• Challenges of RED in commercial phase

– Development of production facilities

– Market entry

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Market expectations (1)

Characteristics markets:

• Surface water: large flow – low energy density

• Industrial water: small flow – high energy density

Products sales ambition worldwide:

• Key components

• Licenses

• Process design

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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Market expectations (2)

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

Maximum practical RED potential worldwide:

• Variation in estimations between 1.4 - 2.6 TW

Potential (technical/economical) in Netherlands:

• Estimated 1,5 GW

• Is about 10-15% of total Dutch electricity

consumption

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Market expectations (3) Possible locations …

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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Market expectations (4) … related to energy coconsumption worldwide

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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Afsluitdijk Project (1)

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

Project spec’s:

• Project partners FujiFilm, Wetsus, REDstack

• Duration 4 years, start 2012

• Technical and system developments

• Stack and membrane development

• First complete system, real world conditions

• Private and public funding

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

Funding specs: • Public funding;

o SNN and Province of Fryslân 3.35 M€

• Private funding

o FUJIFILM 1.00 M€

o REDstack 2.36 M€

o Wetsus (in kind) 0.61 M€

• Total 7.33 M€

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

Project planning specs: • Final Design 4 months

• Construction 7 months

• Start-up 1 months

• Research phase 1 21 months

• Research phase 2 15 months

• Total 48 months

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Scale: • 220 m3/h Seawater input

• 220 m3/h Freshwater input

• Goal: after 4 years 50 kW installed

Research Topics; • Pretreatment

• Membrane development

• Stack development

• Systems integration

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

Project location

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Afsluitdijk Project (6) Position of pilot

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• History

• REDstack



• Questions

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Afsluitdijk project (7)

Basic process principal

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

BufferIJsselmeer water

Pre-treatmentIJsselmeer water

RED stacks

Pre-treatmentWaddenzee water

Effluent bufferBuffer

Waddenzee water

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Afsluitdijk project (8)

The initial design

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Prefiltration

Buffer tanks

8 Stack positions • History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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Afsluitdijk project (9) Actual design: 3D Impression

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• History

• REDstack

• Market

expectations


• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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Photo shoot [June 2013]

First action on location

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Reinforced Concrete foundation

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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First (fairly informal!) meeting with contractors

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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First buffer tank (2013.09.02)

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Buffer tanks in metalstructure

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• History

• REDstack



• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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Open view on lJsselmeer

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• History

• REDstack


• Projects


• Photo shoot

• Questions

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Drumfilters on platform

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Position intake fresh water

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Fresh water intake

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Position salt water intake

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• History

• REDstack




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Salt water intake

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Control unit

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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We worked from an empty location …

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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… Via …

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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… Via …

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• History

• REDstack




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… And …

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Uptill now [2014.03.20]

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… With content …

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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… And with the RED team!

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• History

• REDstack




• Questions

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Questions

Thank you for your attention.

Any questions?

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• REDstack

• Market

expectations

• Afsluitdijk projects

• Afsluitdijk

photoshoot

• Questions

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