Fuel Handing News
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Tennessee Valley Authority studies Browns Ferry licence extension
Increased efficiencies from five-year, $475-million Extended Power Uprate make business case for prolonging operation of plant. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) says it is exploring the potential of applying for a 20-year licence extension at Browns Ferry. The plant’s three reactors are currently licensed to operate to 2033 (Unit 1), 2034 (Unit 2), and 2036 (Unit 3), and the utility ...
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Join us for an up-date on market development i the Nordic region!
Come and meet pellet producers, pellet buyers and large users, producers of equipment, consultants and researchers at Nordic Pellets Conference, 4-5 February 2020, in Uppsala, Sweden. The Nordic Pellets Conference is the best place for new business contacts in the Nordic region. All major players will be there! When and where: Study visits: 4 February, 2020 Conference: 4 – 5 ...
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World Biomass - Detecting Spontaneous Heating in Biomass Pellets
Wood pellets have many desirable properties when used as fuel: they are sustainable, energy-dense, have low moisture content and are easy to transport. They can be burned in place of coal with relatively straightforward modifications to the fuel-handling system. However, they do oxidize easily, and this means they are susceptible to spontaneous heating which, left unchecked, can lead to ...
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B&W Awarded $90 Million Contract For U.K. Waste-to-Energy Power Plant Project
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W) (NYSE:BW) announced today that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, has been awarded a contract for more than $90 million to design, manufacture and build a waste-to-energy power plant near Haresfield, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. B&W Vølund was awarded the contract by a joint venture of Urbaser and ...
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Saxlund takes €3m order for biomass handling system in the UK
Saxlund International GmbH, a fully-owned subsidiary of Opcon AB (STO:OPCO), the energy and environmental technology Group, has received an order from Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, Denmark, for the delivery of a state-of-the-art biomass handling system to a green energy project in Margam – Port Talbot, between Swansea and Cardiff in South Wales, UK. The scope of Saxlund’s ...
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Metso to supply biomass power plant to Bioenergeticheskaya Kompaniya in Russia
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Clean Energy Expo Asia Set to Accelerate Sustainable Development for the Region
Clean Energy Expo Asia Set to Accelerate Sustainable Development for the Region The Pew Charitable Trusts revealed earlier this year that the clean energy market in Asia/Oceania saw US$75 billion in investments . Asia Pacific has a huge and growing demand for energy, and governments across the region are stepping up efforts to grow their renewable energy sources to reduce reliance on depleting ...
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Bruks AB has dual sites at World Bioenergy to showcase their products
Bruks has been exhibiting on the World Bioenergy since the start of the show back in 2004, and 2012 will be no exception! As on previous shows, Bruks will have dual sites. “Since 2004, the bioenergy sector has shown a solid growth with an equally strong impact on our business. The revenue produced from this segment has grown significantly,” says Ola Galfvensjö, Manager Mobile ...
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Siemens Awarded Multiple Orders in the U.S. for Its Power Plant Automation (SPPA) Controls System
Siemens Instrumentation, Controls and Electrical (IC&E) North American group in Alpharetta, Georgia has been awarded several "first time" key project orders in the areas of alternative fuel generation, migrations of existing traditional generation, and the provision of new innovative technology for machinery vibration monitoring and protection. These U.S. projects will showcase the world ...
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Saudi Electricity Company, GE Sign Agreement Totaling Almost $300 Million for Six Power Plant Expansions
GE (NYSE: GE) today signed contracts totaling almost $300 million with the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) to supply 13 gas turbines and associated services for the expansion of six power plants at various locations across the country. The expansions will add nearly 800 megawatts of power to the Saudi grid by the summer of 2013, in time to support peak ...
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Ballard Sees Positive Developments in Clean Energy Fuel Cell Material Handling Market
Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP)(TSX: BLD) congratulates Plug Power on its recent announcement of a strategic investment from Air Liquide. Plug Power is the leader in providing fuel cell systems in material handling applications with their flagship product GenDriveTM, each powered by a Ballard fuel cell stack. Plug Power customers in grocery, retail, warehousing and manufacturing ...
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Metso to convert coal fired boiler to biomass fired boiler for EC Tychy S.A. in Poland
Metso Corporation's press release on April 21, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. local time Metso will convert a coal fired CFB boiler to a biomass fired boiler for Elektrocieplownia Tychy S. A. in southern Poland. The total value of the order is approximately 20 million EUR. The conversion of the coal fired boiler to a biomass boiler is part of EC Tychy S. A.'s production capacity reconstruction program. It ...
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Nrel teams with industry to validate methanol fuel cell technology
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is collaborating with Oorja Protonics of Fremont, Calif., on a two-year project to deploy and demonstrate methanol fuel cells for power pallet jacks, a kind of forklift, in four commercial wholesale distribution centers. The total cost of the project is just over $2 million; NREL will contribute $900,000 to fund ...
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