World's Largest Greenfield 100% Biomass Fired Power Plant
(Room Rheinsaal 2)
28 Jun 17
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Tracks:
Track F - Steam Based Generation
Major incentives on wind and solar power and decreasing consumption have nearly stalled thermal power investments in Europe. While fossil fuels are facing strong political pressures there seems to be market for CO2 neutral thermal power and heat production. Today's market situation calls for fuel flexible technologies, coordinated efforts in the integration of contractual and financial structures and several power generation technologies, while maximum efficiency and economics of scale drive towards utility size solutions. MGT Teesside Limited has selected Técnicas Reunidas (TR), in a consortium with Samsung C&T, for the execution of a contract to build a new 299-MWe combined heat and power (CHP) plant within the Teesport Estate near Middlesbrough, U.K.. The CHP plant will be provided by one Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) boiler supplied by Amec Foster Wheeler, taking the CFB to the 300-MWe scale with sole biomass fuels, i.e. wood pellets and wood chips that will be sourced from certified sustainable forests in North America. Besides providing controllable and nearly CO2 free energy by using renewable fuels, the plant will fulfil most stringent emission limits set for the traditional (SOx, NOx, dust) as well as previously unlimited pollutants, such as NH3, Hg, HCl and HF. High-efficiency biomass power plant needs to utilize advanced steam parameters and in Tees REP they are 176 / 43.8 bar(a), 568 / 568 °C. With sufficiently clean biomass and state-of-the-art design, high availability and acceptable lifetimes of boiler pressure parts can be maintained. When this CHP plant enters commercial operation in January 2020, it will introduce the world’s largest and most advanced 100% biomass fired CFB based power plant. This paper reviews the challenges to build up a bankable EPC solution capable of reaching financial closure and presents the key technical features and performance estimates of the high-efficiency process and state-of-the-art CFB boiler based power plant.