WÄRTSILÄ: Wärtsilä extends its BioPower product range

"WÄRTSILÄ: Wärtsilä extends its BioPower product range
Tuesday 30 May 2006 12:40 EEST Kauppalehti Online

PRESS RELEASE 30.5.2006

Wärtsilä Corporation

Wärtsilä extends its BioPower product range

Wärtsilä Corporation has added two sizes of biomass-fuelled plants to its
BioPower product range employed for electricity generation and local
heating applications. The new BioPower 3 and BioPower 7 plants each
deliver approximately 3 and 7.5 MW of electricity. They join the existing
BioPower 2 and 5 plants to offer an overall electrical output range from
2 to 7.5 MWe.

The new plant sizes allow Wärtsilä to dimension biomass-fuelled power
plants even closer to customer requirements. They also extend the
capacities for heating applications and for condensing plants up to 7.5
MW electrical output. Such higher outputs are in high demand in the
central and southern parts of Europe.

The new, larger plants are based on the same well-proven modular concept
as the earlier plants. The modular approach brings several benefits such
as: consistent quality owing to the factory assembly of modules, less
site work allowing faster delivery time and compact, but well-considered
layout arrangements requiring less floor area for the power plant
building. This technology also results in a reliable, durable plant.
They are also highly automated, enabling unmanned operation with daily
attendance.

Wärtsilä's biomass-fuelled plants are clean and efficient. They are a
practical solution to the need for energy supplies using renewable fuels
with minimum environmental impact. They incorporate patented Wärtsilä
BioGrate combustion technology to burn biomass fuels with high combustion
efficiency and low NOx and CO emissions. They typically use wood-based
fuels, such as sawmill residues, forest harvesting residues, sawdust,
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