Scottish project marks RWE's biggest investment in biomass power
3 Feb 2010
Oslo – Aker Solutions has provided details of its recently awarded contract at a power plant project in Europe. The £115m contract, it said, was awarded by RWE and is to provide design, supply, installation, construction and commissioning for a new 50MW biomass renewable energy plant at the Tullis Russell Papermakers plant near Fife in Scotland.
The scope includes for all major plant items excluding the fluidized bed boiler and flue gas system which will be provided by Metso Power. The contract party is Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Aker Solutions E&C Ltd.
This new plant will be the largest of its kind in Scotland, and will reduce Tullis Russell’s annual carbon emmissions by 250,000 tonnes, reinforcing the company’s position as one of the world’s leading environmentally-focused papermakers. Work is scheduled to commence in February 2010, with commissioning completed in March 2013.
The plant’s on-site production of heat and electricity is currently achieved with a combination of its own coal- and gas-fired cogeneration plant. Operation of the coal-fired plant is to be closed down under Large Combustion Plant Directive regulations and the new biomass plant will secure continuing energy supplies.
The Tullis Russell biomass power plant represents RWE’s largest investment to date in biomass based power generation and part of a plan invest Euro1 billion per annum in renewable energy, said Stephan Lohr, RWE head of biomass.
Deatils of other RWE biomass CHP Projects
Biomass CHP Plant Kehl
Circulating Fluidised Bed (CFB) furnace
Plant output: 59 t/h - 90 bar - 500°C – 8,9 MWel/ 35 MWth
Fuel: 110.000 t waste wood
Wood CHP Plant Berlin-Neukölln
Grate Firing system
Plant Output: 2 x 60 t/h - 64 bar - 445°C - 20 MWel/ 66 MWth
Fuel: 220.000 t waste wood
Biomass Power plant Bergkamen
Circulating Fluidised Bed (CFB) furnace
Plant Output: 80 t/h - 90 bar - 500°C - 20 MWel/ max. 20 MWth
Fuel: 140.000 t waste wood
Industrial CHP Plant Baienfurt
Circulating Fluidised Bed (CFB) furnace
Plant Output: 17 t/h - 42 bar - 440°C – combination with CCGT (38 MWel )
Fuel: 15.000 t paper sludges plus approx. 35.000 t bark plus industrial waste wood
