Energy articles
Energy articles
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Winning with outsourcing
Uni Viridas delivers fuel and sells heat and electricity from their biomass power plant in Babina Greda, Croatia. Everything else is looked after by Valmet. This successful cooperation was continued with the operation and maintenance contract’s extension in early 2019.
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Partners expand Valmet’s global presence
An efficient partner network enables more customers to move their performance forward with Valmet DNA automation solutions.
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Powering growth
For 25 years, Cikarang Listrindo has set the pace for Indonesian industrial development by supplying its customers with high-quality electricity. Its most recent Babelan plant runs with Valmet’s circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler technology and plant-wide automation, providing stable and reliable supply.
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100th order proves flexibility of CFB boilers
The more challenging the fuel, the more flexibility Valmet’s circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler shows. It has evolved from a coal-only boiler to combusting biomass and anything in between.
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From waste to energy
Zibo Green Energy New Energy is the first in China to utilize Valmet’s advanced circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler technology. Besides raising its performance to the next level, their example is setting the direction for the entire municipal Waste to Energy segment.
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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 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.