Energy articles
Energy articles
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Increased efficiency for CHP plants and paper mills
Process efficiency can be significantly increased by utilizing flue gas condensing to recover heat: a source of energy that typically goes up in smoke.
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Better process control, lower NOx emissions
Bord na Móna’s Edenderry Power Plant in Ireland has reduced its NOx emissions with an advanced process control application, Valmet DNA Combustion Manager.
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Sappi Kirkniemi taps into a new fuel opportunity
A side stream from oil refineries - asphaltene - is now a cost-effective fuel at the power plant at the Sappi Kirkniemi mill in Finland. The high fuel flexibility of Valmet’s CFB boiler plays a key role in this outstanding example of a circular economy.
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Power Plant Efficiency: generating savings with flue gas condensate
The flue gas condensing is well utilized at the moment in Scandinavia with hundreds of existing condensing scrubbers. However, besides recovering heat, it’s possible to recover flue gas condensate with feasible payback-time.
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Felsenau hydro power plant emphasizes the importance of automation availability
Hydropower plays an important role in Switzerland’s energy production. Energie Wasser Bern on the Aar River has chosen Valmet’s automation solution to replace its aging system. During the project, Valmet proved to the customer that its specialists are qualified experts with profound skills and competences.
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Smart energy solutions boost TSE power plant’s performance
Valmet’s automation systems and industrial internet solutions enable the plant to run at a totally new level of efficiency in its performance and operations.
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Focus on fuel flexibility
The new multifuel boiler plant at Turun Seudun Energiantuotanto (TSE) is an excellent example of the best features of CFB technology, such as the possibility to use whatever fuel is currently available at the lowest cost.
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Recharge for moving energy producers’ performance forward
Today’s energy producers are facing many challenges: aging production facilities, cost pressures, challenging fuels, new emission regulations, and the rise of renewable energy sources. A recharge with Valmet can be an answer to these challenges.
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Power Plant Efficiency: How to increase your revenues and save the World
It’s possible to increase your CHP plant efficiency above 100 % and generate more than 20 % extra district heating power with the same fuel and reduce CO2 and other emissions at the same time?
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Optimized means profitable at all times
Two of Finland’s biggest energy producers, Helen and Vantaa Energy, have improved their short- and long-term production planning with a Valmet DNA Energy Management solution utilizing the vast opportunities of the Industrial Internet.