Aker Kvaerner's subsidiary Kvaerner Power has been awarded contracts for power boilers by UPM's paper mills in United Kingdom and France in a deal worth approximately 60 million Euros.
Aker Kvaerner' s subsidiary Kvaerner Power has been awarded contracts for power boilers by UPM's paper mills in United Kingdom and France in a deal worth approximately 60 million Euros.
UPM is to build power plants with bioenergy production at its paper mills in northeastern Wales, UK and in northwestern France near Paris.
Kvaerner Power will deliver power boilers using bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology to both mills. The boilers have steam capacities of 82MW each.
The new sludge boiler at Shotton paper mill in the UK will replace an existing one supplied by Kvaerner Power in 1980's. The existing boiler will remain as a back-up unit. The new boiler's modern BFB technology adds sludge burning capacity and increases the steam and electricity production at the mill. The flue gas cleaning system, improving the mill's environmental performance, will also be supplied Kvaerner Power. The boiler will burn all the de-inking sludge produced in the mill's paper recycling process, as well as sawmill and forest residue. The boiler will be ready for start-up at the end of 2006.
At Chapelle Darblay paper mill in France, the new BFB boiler will also replace an existing boiler from 1980's, supplied by Kvaerner Power. The new boiler will burn the mill's de-inking sludge as well as wood available in the region and it will start-up in the beginning of 2007. The mill's power plant will be also equipped with a flue gas cleaning system supplied by Kvaerner Power.
The two new power boiler orders from UPM follow only a month after the previous order to Kvaerner Power for UPM's Rauma paper mill in Finland, for the supply of a power boiler with 107MW steam capacity.
