Foster Wheeler Ltd. has announced that its Finnish subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, has been awarded a contract by NSE Biofuels Oy Ltd. for a circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) biomass oxygen/steam gasifier to be located in Varkaus, Finland.
NSE Biofuels Oy Ltd. is a joint venture owned 50/50 by Stora Enso Oyj and Neste Oil Corporation and the new system forms part of the company’s new-generation renewable diesel demonstration plant at Stora Enso’s Varkaus Mill in Finland.
Foster Wheeler’s scope includes an oxygen/steam gasifier and gas treatment equipment. The plant utilises Foster Wheeler’s fuel-flexible circulating fluidised-bed gasification technology to convert a wide spectrum of biomass into a clean syngas to be used in a gas to liquids (Fischer-Tropsch) process to produce feedstock for renewable diesel from biomass/wood residue-based gas.
While the terms of the award were not disclosed, the contract will be included in the company’s bookings for the second quarter of 2008 and Foster Wheeler has been given the go-ahead to proceed on the contract. The plant is expected to start up in early 2009 and will be integrated into the energy infrastructure of the Stora Enso Varkaus Mill.
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