Jeffrey Specialty Equipment and Rader Companies selected as supplier of Biomass Boiler Feed System
Woodruff, SC - Jeffrey Specialty Equipment and Rader Companies, leading equipment suppliers of biomass material handling equipment to the forest products industry, have been awarded a significant contract to supply a biomass utility boiler feed system in Virginia City, Virginia.
The system will be part of a 650MW power generating plant that will supply power for commercial and residential consumption. 'This type system is what we typically supply to our forest products customers, although they rely on 100% wood versus a mixture of coal and wood' says Doug Sublett, Manager of Sales and Marketing for the company.
Jeffrey and Rader bring their significant experience in handling woody biomass in the Pulp & Paper Industry to support the power industry in its efforts to add more biomass into their standard fuel stream, which is typically coal.
“This state-of-the-art biomass feeding system for the power plant is anticipated to be put into full operation by 2012 with delivery beginning in 2009. Four identical boiler feed systems supply more than 195 tons per hour of wood chips and forest residuals to two boilers. The system, comprised of an assembly of the company’s standard equipment offerings, accepts material that has been pre-sized from a conveyor and is metered it into the boiler at a specified accuracy with high reliability. 'Because our typical customers use 100% wood to fire their boilers, the equipment must be heavy duty and most of all reliable under 24/7 operation,” says Sublett.
“The standard configuration of a boiler feed system is comprised of individual pieces of equipment usually supplied by multiple vendors. As a result of their recent merger, Jeffrey Rader has the ability to provide all of the necessary equipment for the entire boiler feed system from one company. This allows our customers to meet their cost objectives, time constraints and engineering capabilities,” says Don Melchiorre, Senior Vice President of K-Tron International’s size reduction group.
Supplying equipment to the forest products, pulp & paper, mining, aggregates, coal, and the power generation industry Jeffrey Rader Corporation is capable of offering single piece equipment or engineered systems.
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