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News Release from: Foster Wheeler
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Team on 15 September 2006
Biomass power station to use CFB boiler
Foster Wheeler's German and Dutch subsidiaries have been awarded a turnkey contract to design, supply and erect a circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) boiler island.
Foster Wheeler's German and Dutch subsidiaries have been awarded a turnkey contract to design, supply and erect a circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) boiler island for NV Huisvuilcentrale Noord-Holland's new biomass power station to be built at its existing waste incineration plant in the town of Alkmaar in the Netherlands The contract, valued at approximately $29.5 million, will be included in the company's third-quarter bookings
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 2 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The contract includes the design and supply of the 71MW thermal CFB boiler, auxiliary equipment, feedwater system, instrumentation and control system, boiler house steel construction, plus erection and commissioning services.
The boiler will be fuelled by demolition wood.
The boiler island is scheduled for commercial operation in early January 2008.
"This is the tenth demolition-wood-fired CFB project awarded to Foster Wheeler", said James E Stone, Chief Executive Officer, Foster Wheeler Power Group Europe.
"This award confirms our customer's confidence in our project execution and in our CFB technology, which is ideally suited to burning biomass efficiently and with low emissions".
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