Dipl. Ing. Michael Kaden

Date Activity Remarks
1976 Universität Stuttgart, Institute for process engineering and steam boilers. (IVD) Dipl. Ing. energy technology
1976-1981 Deputy Project Director & Engineering Manager Grimethorpe PFBC project. Secondment by KfA Jülich for the German government to the project in England. Largest pressurised fluidised bed boiler with 80 MW. A 70 Mio. Deutschmark project of the IEA funded jointly by Germany / USA / UK, sharing 1/3 each.
1981-1984 Department head - Vereinigte Kesselwerke Düsseldorf. Coordination of fluidised bed combustion activities in the Deutsche Babcock group. Largest FBC boilers at that time with 2 x 160 t/h in Cebu, Philippines, Model power station Völklingen, Circofluid (Römerbrücke)
1984-1987 Managing Director Cornel. Schmidt GmbH Turn key energy plant up to 60 MW capacity. Fluiidised bed boiler for low volataile coal, Eschweiler Bergwerks Verein (EBV)
1987-1993 Sales and marketing director, Sempell AG International experience, for example joint venture India, USA market development.
1993-2004 Managing director and owner
Thermax Engineering Pty Ltd. Cape Town, South Africa
Combustion technology, hospital waste pyrolisis, environmental technology, fluidised bed combustion (biomass, coal, sludge, waste).
2004-2009 Managing director and owner
alera GmbH turn-key energy plant
BurnerMax GmbH (excess air controller )
Energy plant, environmental technology, new technologies, turn-key installations 59 MW hot gas / thermal oil heatingfrom biomass. (Grate firing / Dust) Hexham UK / Rion F
From 2009 alera international
technology provider consultant
Consultant for energy- and environmental technology

- Fluidised bed combustion
- Auto thermal sludge combustion
- High efficiency cyclones and dry spray agglomeration

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