{"id":847,"date":"2013-03-14T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=847"},"modified":"2018-05-02T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:04:50","slug":"worlds-largest-biomass-gasification-plant-inaugurated-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/worlds-largest-biomass-gasification-plant-inaugurated-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest biomass gasification plant inaugurated in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vaskiludon-Voima-gasification-plant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-849\" title=\"vaskiludon Voima gasification plant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vaskiludon-Voima-gasification-plant-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vaskiludon-Voima-gasification-plant-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vaskiludon-Voima-gasification-plant.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The world&#8217;s largest biomass gasification plant was inaugurated on March 11th in Vaasa, Finland. The 140 MWe plant was supplied by Metso.<\/p>\n<p>The technology of the new plant is based on Metso\u2019s long-term development work. Metso\u2019s delivery included fuel handling, a large-scale dryer and a circulating fluidized bed gasifier, modification work on the existing coal boiler and a Metso DNA automation system. The bio-gasification plant was constructed as part of the existing coal-fired power plant, and the produced gas will be combusted along with coal in the existing coal boiler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operational experiences so far indicate that the 140-MW bio-gasification plant functions as planned, and the produced gas burns cleanly in the coal boiler and reduces emissions,\u201d says Mauri Blomberg, Managing Director, Vaskiluodon Voima.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of the coal used by the plant can be replaced with gasified biomass. This makes the solution highly environmentally friendly, enables the flexible use of different fuels and significantly extends the life of the current power plant. Coal powered plants can be made greener, and Vaskiluoto\u2019s plant is leading the way,\u201d says Jyrki Holmala, President of Metso\u2019s Power business line. \u201cCoal boilers still account for the majority of power production in the world. Bio-gasification technology of this scale offers a new, cost-effective option for increasing the share of biomass and, consequently, for significantly decreasing the use of and emissions from coal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metso.com\/news\/newsdocuments.nsf\/web3newsdoc\/4950FCC1037AC5A2C2257B2B003E89E8?OpenDocument&amp;ch=ChMetsoPaperWebEng&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest biomass gasification plant was inaugurated on March 11th in Vaasa, Finland. The 140 MWe plant was supplied by Metso. The technology of the new plant is based&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,18,5,8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}