Serving your custom fabrication needs - from process equipment to modular systems - Hebeler Corporation has the engineering and manufacturing capabilities, skills and experience to meet them. Hebeler has delivered engineered systems, from modular systems to custom high alloy components, for companies large and small, in industries from power generation and chemicals to food and parmaceuticals among others. Our customers include OEMs, A&E firms, contractors, and government agencies.
Biomass Gasification
In a truly revolutionary process, biomass (pelletized living or recently dead biological material) is heated with little to no oxygen present. Because there is not enough oxygen to provide for efficient combustion, the material gasifies into a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen (otherwise known as synthesis gas or syngas for short). As a general rule, gaseous fuels mix with oxygen more easily than liquid or solid fuels. And since combustion is directly related to the mixture of oxygen and hydrocarbon fuel (the more you mix them, the better), syngas burns extremely efficiently. Biomass gasification can improve the efficiencies of existing biomass power facilities, and the syngas produced can also be burned in gas turbines. In addition, the biomass gasification process can be used in conjunction with any process that generates excess heat (electrical generation systems, for instance), with the excess heat being used to warm the biomass.
Gas Scrubbing Systems
Gas scrubbing systems take the syngas that is produced during the Biomass Gasification process and removes any unwanted particulates and impurities in order to create clean-burnable gas.
LFGTE (Landfill Gas to Energy)
Over time, the oxygen-free environment present in landfills gives rise to two gases – carbon dioxide (which leaches out in water) and methane (which is more likely to migrate out of the landfill into air). Landfill Gas to Energy is a green technology process that utilizes the methane already being produced, combusting it in order to generate energy. LFGTE also helps to destroy BioMethane (a dangerous heat-trapping gas) while offsetting the use of non-renewable resources. The EPA estimates that there are 1,754 landfills in the United States, all of which generate methane that can be used for green power generation.
COES (Corn Oil Extraction System)
Corn Oil Extraction is the process by which high grade corn oil is extracted from an ethanol by-product called Distillers Dried Grain (DDG). The oil is then converted into biodiesel, which can be used as cost-effective and renewable energy source.
Fuel Cell
Fuel Cells are electrochemical energy conversion devices, producing electricity by exploiting certain chemical reactions. Various external fuels on the anode side, coupled with an oxidant on the cathode side will react in the presence of an electrolyte. As long as the necessary flows are maintained, fuel cells can operate virtually continuously. Most fuel cells use hydrogen as a fuel (anode), and oxygen as an oxidant (cathode). In general, fuel cells are extremely efficient (depending on the amount of power drawn). A typical fuel cell running at 0.7V has an efficiency of 50%, which means that 50% of the energy content of the hydrogen (or other fuel) is converted into electricity, with the other 50% being converted into heat.