Aalborg Energie Technik a/s Biomass Combined Heat and Power Plant

Swiss Krono Heiligengrabe, Germany

The Swiss Krono site contains a biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant that generates 20,000 kW of electricity and supplies the MDF and OSB manufacturer with heated thermal oil and supplies flue gas for the drying process.

Besides traditional wood chips, bark, sawmill residue etc. the plant has extensive experience of combustion using a wide range of A1 - A4 fuels:

• MDF-granulate from chipboard manufacturing
• Sander dust with very high N content
• Composted wood with up to 25% ash/inert material
• Fuel from external sources.

The plant utilises 130,000 tons of waste wood annually.

High Availability

The CHP plant was delivered in 2003, and had an availability of 95% (8300 hours) in 2013.

AET Supply

AET carried out the design, engineering, supply, erection and commissioning of the fuel handling system, the boiler plant and the flue gas cleaning system on a turnkey basis. The systems supplied include:

• Fuel storage and handling
• Fuel dosing system
• AET Dust firing system
• AET Combustion System with AET Spreader Stoker and AET-Biograte
• AET Biomass boiler with superheater and economiser and flue gas air preheater
• AET Combustion air system
• AET SNCR DeNOx system
• Feed water system
• Water treatment system
• Ash handling system
• Bag filter and lime injection system
• Flue gas cleaning and stack
• Piping and ducting
• Engineering of turbine, ACC and turbine hall
• Optimisation of heat balance
• Electrical installations
• Insulation
• Boiler house steelstructure
• Platforms and stairs
• Instrumentation
• PLC control and SCADA system for the whole plant.

The biomass CHP station was handed over to the customer in 2003.

Additional Information

• Kronoply, - a successful manufacturer of wood products. Read more

Questions? Need detailed information?

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