Site visits went to the Shin Onoda Power Station and the Kitakyushu Laboratory of Nippon Steel Engineering. The site visits took place on Tuesday 25th February, followed by a welcome reception.
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Shin Onoda Power Station
The Shin Onoda Power Plant is located in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture and consists of two 500 MW supercritical units. It started trial cofiring biomass with coal in 2007 and has been cofiring with the support from Feed-in Tariffs (FiT) scheme since.
kitakyushu Laboratory
The Kitakyushu Laboratory engages in research on clean coal technologies, such as reforming, pyrolysis, gasification, catalyst utilisation and improving low-rank coal qualities. The laboratory also works on pretreatment, saccharification and fermentation processes for cellulosic biomass.
Cost for registration for the full event, including welcome reception, lunches and workshop dinner, was US$ 750.