- As part of the three-year project, an innovative and renewable energy park would be created with components such as a solar drying plant, biomass gasification, a biomass fermenter and an absorption chiller to be realised and optimised at the UENR campus.
- A multi-component research plant consisting of Biomass preparation (solar thermal drying), biomass gasification, biomass fermentation and refrigeration (absorption refrigeration plant) is being built to be jointly managed by the partner companies at the UENR campus.
A €3.8 million “LevelUp” waste-to-energy project is set to commence at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) campus in Sunyani, Ghana, with funding approval from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It was launched in July this year and will be completed in 2025. Under the three-year project, an innovative and renewable energy park would be created with components such as a solar drying plant, biomass gasification, a biomass fermenter and an absorption chiller to be realised and optimised at the UENR campus.
In an interview with journalists after a stakeholders’ workshop, Professor Nana Sarfo Agyemang Derkyi, Head of the Department of Renewable Energy and Engineering, UENR and Local Project Leader, to precede a groundbreaking ceremony of the project in Sunyani, highlighted the participating institutions. According to him, the foreign participating universities and institutions are Novis GmbH, Tübingen and AHT Syngas Technology, Ratingen in Germany, CONA from Ried im Traunkreis and NeyerBrainworks GmbH, Bludenz in Austria.
Prof. Derkyi stated the project would also research the technical and economic feasibility of a decentralised energy system based on local biogenic residues for the reliable and sustainable supply of electricity, heating, cooling, and biogas in West Africa, with a particular focus on Ghana. In addition, a multi-component research plant consisting of Biomass preparation (solar thermal drying), biomass gasification, biomass fermentation and refrigeration (absorption refrigeration plant) is being built to be jointly managed by the partner companies at the UENR campus.