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Caterpillar engines receives grant for environmental innovation project
(Business Wire) Kiel, 17.11.2010, generate electricity with wood waste and disposed of to both waste and diesel fuel savings for the advancement of Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG, based in Kiel. The development of engines that run on so-called pyrolysis oils instead of diesel to power generators in power plants is the aim of a project. It is the Land Schleswig-Holstein in the context of future economic program supported with € 200,000.00 (support environmental innovation).

About eight million tonnes of waste wood each year in Germany, which must be incinerated or landfilled consuming. An alternative is offered by the pyrolysis, a thermo-chemical process in which the biomass of air is decomposed to include an oil. Itself problematic, affecting wood waste can be disposed of by this method. The resulting pyrolysis oil can be used to generate electricity, for example by diesel generator. Currently lacking, however, the custom for this technology engines. In particular, the difficult ignition, the lack of grease properties and the reduced by half compared to diesel energy content of pyrolysis oil, are the engineers still needs to be challenges. As a world renowned specialist in large diesel and gas engines, Caterpillar has the necessary experience and the right solutions to develop robust and durable pyrolysis oil engines. With these “biomass engines”, he concludes, is the division Caterpillar Power Generation Systems (CPG), a new and promising field. In particular, the construction of stationary to-energy plants (Power Plants) from waste or biomass provides significant economic and environmental potential. “This technology is a double benefit: First, there is a cost-effective and environmentally sound method of disposing of waste wood. On the other replaces the pyrolysis oil to fossil fuel diesel, thus contributing to climate protection, “said Dr. Bernd Boese, Director of Business Development and Technology Transfer Corporation of Schleswig-Holstein (WTSH) in support of decision-task. By promoting the skills developed at the Kiel site, which also serves as the backup location. By the year 2015, dealing eight employees of Caterpillar engines with the project. Also to be created with external partners by the project 22 new jobs. The company, Caterpillar is a member of the Maritime Cluster Schleswig-Holstein. The application for funding was from the beginning of the Tet cluster staff accompanied. It was especially taken to ensure that the eligible project is defined technically correct is correctly described the recent developments and focus on customer needs and market.

The Business Development Programme is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
In the 2007-2013 program is the future of Schleswig-Holstein, the roof of the programs Zukunftspro economy, labor, rural areas and fisheries. The program for the future of Schleswig-Holstein, with its delivery volume of 1.4 billion Euro, is more economic and employment, promoting innovation and quality of life in Schleswig-Holstein.