Babcock & Wilcox Vølund wins contract for a waste-to-energy plant in Lidköping, Sweden
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund has won a contract for the supply of a combined heat and power plant to the Swedish Lidköping Värmeverk AB (LVAB), which produces electricity, hot water and district heating to 90% of the households and 60% of the industrial enterprises in the local area. The contract covers an expansion of the plant capacity.
The new project in Lidköping includes a new plant for combustion of waste (domestic waste, industrial solid waste and wood chips), equipment for the cleaning of flue gases, and the plant is to produce electricity and heat.
The contract covers a new production line for the existing large and well-functioning CHP plant. The new line will make it possible to restructure and streamline the entire future energy production of the existing five production lines of the plant.
The plant will produce 21.6 MW with a temperature out of the boiler of 350°C and 41 bara.
The plant will be ready for trial run in February 2013.
