Aker Kvaerner secures several contracts.AKER KVAERNER SECURES SEVERAL CONTRACTS. Aker Kvaerner, Lysaker, Norway has secured a contract for delivery of a biofuel-fired boiler boiler, device for generating steam. It consists of two principal parts: the furnace, which provides heat, usually by burning a fuel, and the boiler proper, a device in which the heat changes water into steam. plant in Sweden and also several new assignments for power boiler modernizations in Sweden, Lithuania, and Slovakia. The new contracts have a total value of approximately EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 65 million (US$79.7 million). * Kvaerner Power, part of the Aker Kvaerner group, will deliver a power boiler plant to Kappa Kraftliner AB's mill in Pitea, Sweden. The company is part of Kappa Packaging, a European paper, board, and packaging company with more than 100 production sites spread all over Europe. With this investment Kappa Kraftliner will increase the mill's electricity production. The new capacity is based on biofuels and therefore regarded as green energy. * Angelholm Energi AB, Sweden, a municipal energy company, is modernizing and expanding its Akerslund cogeneration cogeneration In power systems, use of steam for both power generation and heating. High-temperature, high-pressure steam from a boiler and superheater first passes through a turbine to produce power. plant to attain increased capacity and higher environmental standards for the future. The company is preparing for increases in the demand for heat, and the boiler rebuild will increase the plant's thermal capacity thermal capacity: see heat capacity. with 50%. There will be extended possibilities when it comes to choosing various types of fuel, such as demolition wood. Carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions will be reduced by increasing the proportion of renewable biofuels. |
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