IEA Bioenergy eWorkshop

20:th October 2020

Vesa Helanti
Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of process
technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy
industries

Renewables to energy Multifuel to energy Industrial boilers

Sorted waste to energy (RDF- Co-firing biomass, waste (RDF, O&G / Process Gas Boiler plants
Biomass to energy
refuse derived fuel SRF) and fossil fuels (coal, gas) Heat recovery boiler plants

• Over 200 Bubbling Fluidized Bed boilers (BFB) since 1979 Since 2007 ~100 new boiler plants
Capacity 10-400 MW th Total capacity ~12 000 MW th
• Over 95 Circulating Fluidized Bed boilers (CFB) since 1980 Capacity Multifuel 26
50 -1000 MW th
Sorted Waste 12 68 Biomass
• Over 30 Modularized biomass power plants since 1999
Capacity 2-10 MWe
• 8 Gasification plants for waste and biomass

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Valmet CFB Gasifier

CFB Gasifier

Size 20 - 140 (300) MWth

Fuel Biomass, waste

Gasification Air
media
Operating 750 - 900 C
temperature
Operating 5 - 30 kPa(g)
pressure
Product gas 3 - 8 MJ/Nm3 (LHV)
heating value

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 CFB Gasifier applications

Valmet CFB Gasifier

Biomass or waste based product gas for kilns and power boilers

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Biomass gasification for lime kilns
 Lime kiln at a large pulp mill can use over 200 t/d heavy fuel oil or an equivalent amount of NG
 At a modern mill lime kiln is the only major consumer of fossil energy
 By gasification the oil can be replaced with tree bark and other residual biomasses

Raw material – Wood chips Cooking Pulp

Evaporation
Liquor circle
Causticizing

Recovery boiler
Lime circle

Energy to
lime kiln
Lime kiln

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Lime Kiln CFB Gasifier Solution

What is needed:
1. Dryer
2. Gasifier
3. Kiln
and integration of those.

Silo CFB

biogas

Feed

Fan

Belt dryer CFB gasifier Biogas burner

to lime kiln

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Valmet Lime Kiln CFB Gasifier

Metsä Fibre Kemi, Finland, 2022

LOI
Application: Lime kiln
Gasifier 100 MW (1400 tpd lime)
Dryer evaporation 32 ton/h water

Bracell STAR, Brasil, 2021

Under construction
Application: Lime kiln
Gasifier 2 x 87 MW (2 x 1300 tpd lime)
Dryer evaporation 2 x 12 ton/h water

Chenming Huanggang, China, 2018

In operation
Application: Lime kiln
Gasifier 50 MW (900 tpd lime)
Dryer evaporation 12 ton/h water

Metsä Fibre Äänekoski, Finland, 2017

In operation
Application: Lime kiln
Gasifier 87 MW (1200 tpd lime)
Dryer evaporation 23 ton/h water

APP OKI, Indonesia, 2017

In operation
Application: Lime kiln
Gasifier 2 x 110 MW (2 x 1250 tpd lime)
Dryer evaporation 2 x 19 ton/h water
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Valmet CFB Gasifier for general kiln use - Requirements

 Suitable process size: from 30 to 200 MW

 Suitable fuel available: biomass, sorted waste (SRF, RDF) can be utilized
 Compatible processes:
– CFB reactor is not optimal for intermittent operation, sharing for multiple consumers is generally not possible
– Product gas is hot, not significantly pressurized,
 Cement kilns are an obvious application

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Additional information available

Vesa Helanti
Product manager, Gasification
vesa.helanti@valmet.com

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