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Plans have advanced to install a first-in-the-world heating and power system at the One North industrial campus being developed in Millinocket.
Fueled by the wood waste of Maine forests and cycled through a “super-critical carbon dioxide” energy conversion turbine, the system is touted as an energy-saving breakthrough.
Once up and running, the integrated systems are expected to be the world’s first combined heat and power system fueled by biomass and enabled by super-critical carbon dioxide, or sCO2, according to a news release.
Financing for the project includes support from the U.S. Department of Energy through congressionally directed spending of $2.5 million.
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