Balance of Plant Optimisation

In this BoP-OP project the partners are working on the development of a 2.5 kW platform targeting the microchip (Combined Heat and Power) and supplemental power market. The success of the deployment of the system relies on mature core technology, solid
integration and good BOP-OP components. During the EUDP project Danish Micro CHP, DTP has identified issues, which represent barriers towards commercialization. Most of the failures seen during the field trial (128,000 hours on 20 systems) were related to BoP (Balance of Plant) components and more precisely their interaction with each other. Therefore the work in this project will be divided between the identification of the failure mode and the identification of the appropriate cost effective solution. Further there will be work related to the reduction of the cost of ownership by reducing the capital cost and
operating cost.
Therefore the overall objective of this project is to conduct 8 work packages, which should lead to:

• Reduction in cost of ownership by reducing capital and operating cost.
• Maintaining the level 'of performance and improving Iifetime.
• Improvement of the availability rate by reducing the downtime due to system incoherence