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Product category: Energy management; Boiler control
News Release from: Foster-Wheeler | Subject: Jyvaskylan Energia
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial Team on 08 August 2007

200 MW circulating fluidised-bed steam
generator

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Foster Wheeler Global Power Group has been awarded a contract for a 200 MWe (gross megawatt electric) circulating fluidised-bed steam generator by Jyvaskylan Energia Oy of Finland

The boiler will be built as a part of a greenfield power plant project in the city of Jyvaskyla in central Finland Foster Wheeler will design and supply the CFB boiler and auxiliary equipment and will also carry out the erection and commissioning of the boiler island

The planned power plant will be a combined heat and power plant fueled by milled peat and biomass (mostly logging chips).

It will be located at Keljonlahti by Lake Paijanne about five kilometers south of Jyvaskyla city centre.

The plant will produce up to 200 MW of electricity and up to 240 MW of district heat to the city of Jyvaskyla.

Commercial operation is scheduled for the spring of 2010.

"This is a very important project for us," said James E Stone, president and chief executive officer of Foster Wheeler Power Group Europe: "We are very pleased with this award which confirms the Jyvaskyla Energia confidence in our CFB technology and our project execution capabilities".

Juha Lappalainen, chief executive officer of Jyvaskylan Energia, added that: "We selected Foster Wheeler for this important project for its outstanding technology: we were also able to improve our economics with features provided by the selected CFB technology and innovative tail end heat recovery.

I am sure we all will have a successful project".

Foster Wheeler .

is a global company offering, through its subsidiaries, a broad range of engineering, procurement, construction, manufacturing, project development and management, research and plant operation services.

Foster Wheeler serves the upstream oil and gas, LNG and gas-to-liquids, refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and healthcare industries.

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