• About The Project
  • Goals
  • History
  • Accomplishments
  • Future
• Benefits
  • Economic Benefits
  • On‑Farm Benefits
  • Power Plant Benefits
• Cofiring Cycle
  • Planting & Establishing Switchgrass
  • Harvesting
  • Transportation & Storage
  • Processing
  • Power Generation
  • Green Power Sales
• Prairie Lands Biomass LLC
• Be A Fuel Supplier
• Buy Home Grown Power
• Technical Information
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• Process System
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About the Project

The Chariton Valley Biomass Project is a cooperative effort between the Chariton Valley Resource Conservation and Development Inc., Alliant Energy, Prairie Lands Biomass LLC, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Based in Southern Iowa, the Project’s partners are seeking to demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility of producing power from locally-grown and harvested renewable fuel resources: switchgrass and other native southern Iowa grasses. More...

Test Firing Success

During the Late Summer / Early Winter of 2005, the CVBP team built a new biomass processing facility at Ottumwa Generating Station. The facility was constructed to enable the completion of the project’s third and final required test burn of the demonstration phase of the project. The Long Term Test Burn was successfully completed between February and May 2006, with the facility operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during that period to demonstrate what commercial operations would be like. A long term test burn was required to investigate the impacts of long term, continuous switchgrass firing at OGS. The project set a world record for power generated from switchgrass during the test burn, and collected valuable performance data and experience for evaluating the commercial viability of the project. More...

Biomass Equipment and Building For Sale

If negotiations cannot be reached to keep the Biomass Processing Building and Equipment intact at its current location, the biomass Equipment and Building must go.

These items were used as part of the Chariton Valley Biomass Project, and were used to convey, grind, and pneumatically transport ground switchgrass to a power plant boiler to convert switchgrass to electrical energy.

The building is located in Wapello County, Iowa.

• The building and equipment will be offered for sale - as is.
• The building is currenlty housing the equipment and could be sold as a full package or could be split out.
• The building will need to be dismantled and removed from the site at the buyer's expense.

To view photos of the building and equipment, click on Gallery at the top of the page.

For a detailed description of the building and equipment and for further informaiton contact:

Chariton Valley RC&D

Phone: 641-437-4376

e-mail: cvrcd@cvrcd.org

(Nov/Dec 2009)