Kvaerner Power Wins Power Boiler Contract in Finland

Kvaerner Power has been awarded a contract for a power boiler by UPM. The contract is worth approximately EUR 20 million.

Kvaerner Power is to deliver a power boiler using bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology to a power plant at UPM's Rauma paper mill on the west coast of Finland. The power plant will be built by the new company Rauman Voima Oy which is owned by Pohjolan Voima Oy and Rauman Energia Oy. UPM is a substantial shareholder of Pohjolan Voima.

The new power plant will produce electricity, steam for the paper mill and district heat for Rauma city.

The boiler supplied by Kvaerner Power has a thermal capacity of 107 megawatt (MW) and it will burn bark, forest residue, peat, sludge and small amount of recycled fuel. The modern BFB technology fulfils the co-combustion emission requirements and the use of biofuels reduces the CO2 emissions to the atmosphere.

The boiler will be ready at the end of 2006 and it will operate in parallel with a 160 MWth circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler delivered by Kvaerner Power in 1996. The new boiler will replace a coal-fired boiler from the 1960's, which was also supplied by Kvaerner Power.

UPM and Pohjolan Voima have chosen Kvaerner Power as its technology provider several times during the last years and Kvaerner Power has supplied fluidized bed boilers which range from 70 to 550 MWth including the world's largest biofuel-fired BFB and CFB boilers.

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Posted 28/01/05

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