The total project execution time from award of the order to the beginning of commercial operation was only 39 months. Ichihara power plant is designed to produce 50 MWe electric power from biomass (wood pellets and palm kernel shells). The Andritz PowerFluid boiler features high pressure and a reheat system in combination with high steam temperatures with the aim of achieving high plant efficiency and optimizing the utilization of valuable, high-grade biomass.

The scope of supply comprised the engineering work, delivery, erection work, and start-up of the fluidized bed boiler, including a flue gas cleaning system with high-dust SCR and auxiliary equipment. The equipment and technologies supplied by Andritz are essential parts of a high-efficiency biomass power plant for supply of green energy to the national grid.

With this biomass-fired CFB boiler, Andritz has made an important contribution to the Japanese renewables initiative, supporting the Japanese power industry in the very promising transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy sources.

Andritz has “a strong market position for CFB boilers” and is working at the moment on ten more CFB boiler projects in Japan (3 x 75 MWe and 7 x 50 MWe) that are currently in the start-up phase or will go into operation over the next few years.

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