New Biomass Power Plant in Sweden Scheduled for Late 2016
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Valmet, Finland, will supply a complete biomass based power plant to Skövde Värmeverk AB in Skövde, Sweden. The new power plant will produce district heat to the local district heat network and electricity to the national grid. It is scheduled to start up in late 2016. The value of the order is about EUR 30 million.
The boiler will be fueled with wood chips and bark. With the investment, Skövde Värmeverk will be able to reduce the amount of fossil fuel used, and meet the increasing demand of district heating in its operating area.
"Block 4 is a large environmental project for us. A biomass fired power plant is first of all an investment in the environment. Currently we need to run heavy oil fired power plants as soon as the temperature goes down to -2 degrees C. Once Block 4 goes on stream, we will be able to let the temperature drop down to -15 degrees C before we need to use oil in our production," said Carl-Johan Andersson, managing director, Skövde Värmeverk. "This is the largest environmental investment that the municipality of Skövde has ever made."
"We are extremely proud of the trust shown by Skövde Värmeverk in giving us this order. We have worked intensively to meet the customer's needs and adapted the plant to meet their high requirements for functionality and quality," added Mikael Barkar, senior sales manager, Valmet.
Valmet's complete process delivery from fuel reception to stack will include a bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) boiler plant including a biomass-fired HYBEX boiler, a flue gas condensing scrubber, a combustion air moisturizing tower, CO2 and NH3 scrubbers, condensate treatment, electrification, instrumentation, and automation. Excluded are the turbine, generator, and civil works.
The boiler will have a thermal capacity of 38 MWth. An additional 8.5 MWth is recovered from water vapor using Valmet's flue gas condensing technology.
Skövde Värmeverk is a limited liability company owned by Skövde municipality and was established in 2003.
