Biofuel in CHP-plants
Wärtsilä is a leading supplier of decentralized power plants, providing sustainable power plant solutions and engines for several market segments.
Wärtsilä combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Hungary.
Sustainable power generating solutions
Wärtsilä liquid biofuel power plants use these highly efficient reciprocating engines to turn clarified crude vegetable oils into electricity and heat, without any supplementary energy for fuel refinement needed. Common liquid biofuel sources approved for use in Wärtsilä engines are oils from various oilseeds, such as palm oil, palm stearin, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil and jatropha oil.
Wärtsilä power plants range in size from 1-300 MW and are based on single or multiple engines from Wärtsilä’s range of reciprocating engines.
Wärtsilä concentrate on three key market segments:
• flexible baseload operation
• peaking & grid stability services
• industrial self generation
Combined heat and power installations
Wärtsilä has been particularly successful in delivering liquid biofuel-based decentralized power plants, supplying power plants totalling almost 800 MW to Italy, many of which have been combined heat and power (CHP) installations. Wärtsilä is also delivering the world’s first CHP power plant using crude jatropha oil as fuel to Belgium.
Applicable with wind power
In addition, Wärtsilä’s flexible power plants, running e.g. on liquid biofuel, can turn wind power even more interesting, even in areas with less than perfect weather conditions and where a reliable supply of electricity is crucial. Wärtsilä’s flexible engine-based power plants are the ideal solution to balance the volatile wind power supply.
Advantages of Wärtsilä’s flexible, liquid biofuel power plants:
• High simple cycle electrical efficiency
• High overall plant plant performance and availability
• Sustainable power generation with practically zero greenhouse gas emissions
• The possibility to benefit from green energy incentive systems
• Avbility to run either on peak, intermediate or baseload while maintaining full efficiency
• They can be dispatched quicker than any other prime mover on your grid
• No water requirements
• They can be scaled up in size as and when the power needs increase.
Wärtsilä today has close to 40 GW of installed power in more than 4400 gas- or oil-fuelled power plants worldwide. The company has a long history and extensive experience in the design, building and turn-key supply of power plants, executing around 100 power plant projects each year.
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Key figures
19,000 employees
160 locations
70 countries around the world
Listed on the Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, Finland
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