Each HGT - Draig Energy Centre is a state of the art facility, laid out with drainage, a road system, pavements, street lights, lightning conductors. Landscaped with paved areas and decorative bushes and green shrubbery.
These are fully designed to make the power station an attractive place to work.The control room is 'State-of-the-art' with large screen monitor displays (60inch) showing critical operations, video feeds of the combustion, chimney data and all possible operational information such as power developed and MWe exported, resulting in money earned.
The overall site as clean and tidy and a pleasant place to work. The control system is computer software based and enables three scada large screen monitors and two smaller monitors, to display all available sub-section screens and video streams from many safety critical areas.
One such control room can process the entire power station of any size up to 600MWe.
HGT - Draig operations take over the running of the plant from the commissioning team.
They train the local employees until they are certified to our standards.
Draig's Power Stations can work on almost any solid fuels such as:- Coal or Anthracite, Biomass such as Wood Bamboo or Bagasse, Biofuels such as pelletised Wood or Bamboo even Waste Derived Fuel.
The Draig Energy Centre is only available in Africa through HGT. It has been purposely designed especially to suit the environment in Africa. The Energy Centre doesn't need to be sited near water, or have a large dam constructed by the side of the power station, like other conventional power stations must do. Therefore it can operate anywhere so long as fuel is available.
Efficient combustion relies heavily on controlling the excess air going into the combustion chamber. Too much and you have free oxygen that can combine with nitrogen or sulphur, making nasty gases. Getting the oxygen content right is the job of Draig's patented computer system. 97% combustion efficiency means NO harmful gases.
The revolutionary design of the Draig Energy Centre is unique in the way it controls the combustion process. The Energy Centre's computer perfectly controls the amount of air allowed into the combustion chamber, therefore there is no excess air to form any harmful gas emmissions.
The Energy Centre is designed to be able to burn any solid fuel, this includes:- Lignites (Soft brown coal), coal, anthracite, petroleum coke, wood, and dry biomass. The Energy Centre can even burn waste derived fuels that have been processed into pellets prios to combustion.
The Energy centre has been designed to plug together in 50MWe modules. Therefore the sizing of the power station is easy as for 200MWe you need 4 modules. These are delivered to site and are simply plugged together. Everything is pre-tested before it leaves the factory, we deliver a power station to site that produce electricity immediately.