Skövde Värmeverk, a municipality-owned energy utility, has inaugurated its new biomass-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Skövde, a town in south-central Sweden. The CHP plant, which supplies district heat to the town, was officially opened by Ibrahim Baylan, Minister for Policy Coordination and Energy on March 22.
– It’s a great day for us as a company and for the municipal of Skövde. With this additional biomass plant, we will be able to deliver sustainable and climate neutral heating and power to Skövde and also be prepared for future growth of the city. This new plant will help to reduce 40 000 tonnes of CO2 emissions on annual basis. The project has run smoothly and we are very pleased in the project organization with Valmet as the lead contractor, said Sammy Tanhua, CEO of Skövde Värmeverk AB.
Supplied by Finland-headed forest and energy industry technology provider Valmet, the new CHP plant produces district heat to the local district heat network and electricity to the national grid. The boiler is fuelled with wood chips and bark. The plant has a thermal capacity of 38 MWth and additional 8.5 MWth is recovered from water vapour using flue gas condensing technology.
Valmet’s complete process delivery from fuel reception to stack included a biomass-fired HYBEX boiler, a flue gas condensing scrubber, a combustion air moisturizing tower, CO2 and NH3 scrubbers, condensate treatment, electrification, instrumentation, and automation.
–It has been a great pleasure to follow the project from the first contacts to this inauguration. And it is satisfying to see the proud customer showing the inauguration guests this very nice plant, said Mikael Barkar, Senior Sales Manager, Energy Sales and Services Operations, Valmet.
