Green Alternative for the Northern Poland macroregion Baltic Eco-Energy Cluster The Baltic Eco-Energy Cluster (BKEE) is a common initiative of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery PAS, University of Warmia and Mazury, Gdansk University of Technology, Koszalin University of Technology, Marshals and Self-Governments of the Pomorskie and Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeships, as well as the economic units and associations having their seats in those voivodeships. Geographically, BKEE s activity covers the area of Northern Poland from Koszalin through Pomorskie Voivodeship to eastern confines of Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship. The main mission of BKEE is to introduce and promote a widely understood idea of distributed cogeneration, i.e. simultaneous small and medium scale production of thermal energy and electricity from renewable energy sources, mainly biomass, but also by converting water, solar and wind energy. Actions taken by BKEE are oriented on: reducing the proportion of fossil fuels as the primary energy sources, with simultaneous significant increase of the use of bio-fuels and other sources of renewable energy, stimulating development of green energy related new technologies and training specialists, assistance in starting production of facilities and systems for bio-energy industry, promoting and supporting energy saving technologies, developing ecological awareness, and professional activation of rural area residents. BKEE s activity manifests itself, among other effects, in establishing Agro-Energy Complexes, and small and medium-scale cogeneration power plants.
Beneficiaries The list of the main beneficiaries of BKEE s activity includes: business people investing in agro energy complexes, cogeneration micro power plants, and other renewable energy based power plants, producers of facilities and installations being the technological equipment for agro energy complexes and micro power plants; including innovation and implementation oriented businesses, energetic plant planters and biofuel producers providing energy for agro energy complexes, territorial self-government units (gminas, towns, poviats) - by meeting energy needs of residents, increasing employment and tax incomes, promoting the region, small and medium-scale businesses interested in the reduction of operating costs and taking opportunities of developing new business activities on the renewable energy market, local communities interested in environment protection - by reducing the emission of harmful substances to the atmosphere, groups of scientists - by gaining extra financial resources for scientific research. INVESTORS FACILITY PRODUCERS FARMERS BENEFICIARIES RESIDENTS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SCIENTISTS
Main thematic areas and realised projects The activities planned within the framework of the Green Alternative Baltic Eco-Energy Cluster include the research and development activity, developing a series of new-technology laboratories, establishing a series of demonstration and training centres, and assistance in implementing innovative technologies by economic units production plants and rural farms, in the form of the results of scientific research and the prepared model documentations made public. Basic projects to be realised in the first stage of operation in the selected thematic areas include: Cogeneration of small and medium scale thermal and electric energy Formulating assumptions for models and projects of small and medium-scale cogeneration power plants fired by biomass for individual and industrial receivers, including: optimisation of boiler furnaces for burning selected types of biomass, selecting microbearings and microrotors, the turbine and high-revolution generator system, micro heat exchangers and condensers Cooperation of biomass fired micro power plants with other facilities (solar collectors, adsorption refrigerators, thermoelectric components, energy storage systems) Investigating and developing new technologies of burning in oxygen and porous deposits Detection, separation, and utilisation of CO 2 from combustion gases using phase transitions. Building the pilot installation Hydrogen technologies and fuel cells Distributed integral systems of hydrogen reforming and their implementation in an intelligent energy and transport network developing a concept of hydrogen highway of energy and transport Thermodynamic modelling of hybrid cycles making use of fuel cells as the main energy converter Advanced plasma methods in eco-energy engineering plasma-based production of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier New materials Developing new electro-hydrodynamic and plasma-based material nanotechnologies for cogeneration power plant components, including: materials resistant to high temperature and abrasion, porous materials for combustion chambers, micro- and nanotubes for heat exchangers, materials for fuel cells, nonadhesive and low-friction materials, ceramic and composite layers, resistant to biomass provoked corrosion.
Production and conversion of solid, liquid and gas biofuels Building the installation for fuel production from agricultural and municipal wastes, and those generated by the agriculture and food industry Oil production in the process of thermal depolimerisation of biomass and stabilised municipal wastes Building systems for synthesis gas production from wet biomass Energetic plant production technologies Developing production of energetic plants based on balanced needs and flexible systems of agricultural production. Examining productivity of perennial energetic plants and comparing energetic capacity of their biomass in the fermentation and gasification processes in thermogenerators. Collecting and processing of biomass created in eutrophicated surface waters Utilisation of water, wind, and solar energy Developing a new method for designing ultra low-head water turbines (up to 3 m) for small water power engineering Examining aerodynamics, thermodynamics and dynamics of conventional thermal turbines working in reduced conditions and changed loads resulting from electric energy generation in a distributed system Cheap wind turbine for an individual farmstead New micro- and nanolayers in solar collectors Examining optoelectronic properties of silicon-free CIGS materials for photovoltaics Assistance in developing the agro energy industry Working out an interactive model of the agro energy complex (in UML language), to allow making comparisons between different technological and design solutions, and selecting an optimal solution for a given location Developing and implementing an internet information system on opportunities to invest in agro energy in gminas, oriented on potential investors and farmers Developing instruments of assistance in construction projects taking into account energy saving solutions
Research laboratories, and demonstration and training centres Extending and equipping the Cogeneration Micro Power Plant Laboratory at the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery PAS Building the Nanotechnology Laboratory at the IF-FM PAS Building and equipping the Cogeneration Micro Power Plant Demonstration Centre in Rusocin Extending and equipping the Renewable Energy Laboratory at the Gdansk University of Technology j Extending and equipping the Renewable Energy Laboratory at the Koszalin University of Technology Extending and equipping the laboratory in the Renewable Energy Centre, the University of Warmia and Mazury Extending the Energetic Plant Agrotechnology Centre in Kwidzyn Setting up the Renewable Energy Advanced Technology Centre in Łężany, Implementation projects Building agro energy complexes in the gminas: Gołdap, Gniewino, Kępice, and Górowo Iławeckie, and in the poviats: Lidzbark Warmiński, Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, and Kwidzyn Building a pilot modular plant to produce biogas from green mixture in Orneta Modernisation of boiler houses and their adaptation to biomass burning in the gminas Kępice and Górowo Iławeckie Building wind farms in the gminas Gołdap and Górowo Iławeckie Building the wind field in Szwarcenowo (poviat Nowe Miasto Lubawskie) Building the water power plant on the Gołdap river Building a pilot hydroset on the low water head stage Building the Planeta s House in Gniewino Implementing the programme Solar roofs for Powiśle in Kwidzyn
Funds The Baltic Eco-Energy Cluster Green Alternative provides opportunities for rational use of European Union funds for intensive and sustainable development of the Northern Poland macroregion as the main producer of renewable energy. It is planned to gain resources for BKEE s operation from central and regional operational programmes for years 2007-2013, including: The Operational Programme: Innovative Economy, The Operational Programme: Infrastructure and Environment, The Operational Programme: Human Resources, The Development Programme for Rural Areas, The Operational Programme: Development of Eastern Poland, The Operational Programme of the Pomorskie Voivodeship, The Operational Programme of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship. CENTRAL OPERATIONAL PROJECTS R&D PROJECTS, RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE OP IE OP I&E OP HR OP RA OP DEP DEMONSTRATION / TRAINING CENTRES REGIONAL OPERATIONAL PROGRAMS Pom Warm-Maz IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS BENEFICIARY S OWN RESOURCES
BKEE Programme Council: Contact Honorary Chairman - Prof. Jerzy Buzek, jbuzek@europarl.eu.int Chairman Prof. Jan Kiciński, IMP PAN, ul. Fiszera 14, 80-952 Gdańsk, kic@imp.gda.pl Vice-Chairman - Prof. Wojciech Sadowski, PG, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, wosa@pg.gda.pl Vice-Chairman - Prof. Janusz Piechocki, UW-M, ul. Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, jpt@uwm.edu.pl BKEE Board: President Prof. Janusz Gołaszewski, UW-M, ul. Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, janusz.golaszewski@uwm.edu.pl Vice-President - Robert Szaj, ENERGA, EC Elbląg, ul. Elektryczna 20 a, 82-300 Elbląg, rsz@post.pl Vice-President Tomasz Obara, ZRE, ul. Na Stępce 1a, 80-958 Gdańsk, tomasz.obara@zregdansk.pl