Finland-headed forest industry and energy technology major Valmet Oyj has announced that it will supply a biomass power boiler and a flue gas cleaning system to Tahara Biomass Power LLC in Tahara, Japan. The new circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler will enable the customer’s power plant to achieve a stable power supply at high thermal efficiency while significantly reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
The project will be delivered in cooperation with the Japanese company JFE Engineering Corporation. JFE Engineering is the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractor for the Tahara Biomass Power Plant in Tahara City, Aichi Prefecture, said to be one of the largest biomass power plant projects in the country.
We are proud to supply one of the largest biomass-fired boiler plants in Japan with a maximum biomass combustion capacity. This is also our sixth boiler plant order in a row with JFE Engineering Corporation, which is proof of our long and trustful cooperation, said Jari Niemelä, Director, Boilers and Gasifiers, Energy Business Unit, Valmet.
Valmet’s delivery includes a biomass-fired 112 MWe Valmet CFB Boiler and a flue gas cleaning system. The plant will use woodchips and wood pellets as the main fuels.
The value of the order has not been disclosed although Valmet says that the value of this kind of order is typically around EUR 70 million. The installation work is scheduled to start in 2023, and the plant will start commercial operation in 2025.
