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The Western Wood Energy Power Plant (WWEP) is a biomass fired power plant built and owned by Western Bio-energy Ltd.
The biomass power plant was successfully commissioned in 2008 - 18 days ahead of schedule. An initial performance test showed:
- The overall cycle efficiency was 30 %
- The boiler efficiency was tested to 92 %
- The in-house power consumption for the whole plant was only: 1150 kW
UK's higest availability at 99%
In 2009, a 6 month availability test has been conducted and the overall availability for the whole power plant showed impressive 99% (APR - OCT 2009).
The WWEP has an annual fuel input of 160,000 tons of forestry wood or clean, uncontaminated residues from wood processing.
Turnkey supply
The supply was made in a consortium between AET and a partner. AET designed, supplied, constructed and commissioned the following scope:
- Fuel storage and preparation
- AET fuel feeding and dosing system
- AET Combustion System with spreader stoker and AET-Biograte
- AET boiler with superheater and economizer
- AET over fire air system
- Steam air preheaters
- Feed water system
- Oil burner
- Ash handling system
- Bag filter
- Stack
- PCL control system and instrumentation
- SCADA system
- Piping and ducting
- Insulation
- Structural steel
- Platforms and stairs
- Heat balance optimisation
Further information
- Video from opening ceremony of WWEP: "AET plant operation with UK´s best availability", click here.
- The Western Wood Energy Plant is Wales first commercial scale biomass project which generates 14MWe by burning forestry wood and clean wood processing residues in a
AET state-of-the-art combustion plant. Read more
- British Bioenergy News (2007):.The £33M flagship project, which will burn clean wood from sustainable foresrty will be built in Port Talbot. The plant will only use clean wood material from sustainably managed
forests and saw mills. This carbon neutral method of generating electricity will displace approximately 47,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. Read more
- AET together with the consortium partner also have a 5 year O&M contract for the project.
Questions? Need detailed information?
Please get more information about this biomass plant and/or generally about Aalborg Energie Technik a/s: Who is AET Biomass?
AET has capabilities in development, design, supply, construction, commissioning, operation & maintenance, rehabilitation and conversion of process steam plants, CHP-plants and power plants, fired with a wide range of
biomass fuels such as wood chips, bark, demolition wood, wood waste, sander dust, chicken litter, spent compost, meat & bone meal, agricultural waste, grown biomass fuel a.m.
AET also offers consultancy services in the biomass and boiler field.
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48 MWfuel heat input, 92 bara, 512°C
15 MWe
From the official opening ceremony: "AET plant operation with UK´s best availability": See the video.
This biomass power plant has a 48 MW AET Biomass Boiler with the newest AET Combustion System which fulfils stringent NOx emission criteria without SNCR.
The Western Wood Energy Power Plant is a biomass fired power plant built and owned by WBL. |
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