company’s environmental footprint. With this project, the company is targeting the reduction of fossil energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Locally sourced wood waste and residues will be replacing about 445,000 GJ/year of natural gas, re-ducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 22,000 tonnes/year. “It’s part of a larger strategy called Sus-tainability 2015,” says Van Biesen. “We’re looking to improve on a number of fronts, including energy usage, solid waste man-agement, and water consumption. This particular case is a fossil fuel reduction project. We just so happened to have Nex-terra, a technology development company that’s based in British Columbia, who has something that is interesting from a bio-mass standpoint. It just seemed to be a per-fect fit for our New Westminster operation, where we use quite a bit of steam for dry-ing in the paper-making process.” He adds that Kruger Products has already reduced greenhouse gas emissions at the mill by nearly 40%. The application of the direct-fired boiler technology has already received a Canadi-Rick Scammell, utilities manager for Kruger Products, explains the biomass gasification system installed at Kruger to tour participants. an Institute of Technology Award in British Columbia and a British Columbia Technol-ogy Industry Association award, says Van Biesen. The project is also short listed for a Green Energy and Biofuels Award from Pulp and Paper International, and a Platts Global Energy Award for green energy ini-tiative of the year, he adds. Looking ahead, Van Biesen suspects that Kruger may be adding similar biomass projects in the future. “It depends on the site,” he says. “The Westminster system is not a cookie-cutter thing we can put everywhere.” “The key thing about biomass projects is you need the fuel. Wherever there is an opportunity to secure that type of material within a reasonable footprint—we don’t want to be trucking it from miles away— we’ll be looking at it for sure,” Van Biesen says. “In the case of the New Westminster plant, there’s a possibility to expand the system we put in by another 50%, which we’re looking at today.” • Material Handling for Woody Biomass Biomass Handling Equipment Complete Engineered Systems Pulverized Coal Boiler Conversions CFB Boiler Feed Systems U D S S T T A ES U N ITED A T T ES C A A C A N N A DA SW ED E E N N SW ED Silos Wood Hogs Disc Screens Open Storage Closed Storage Truck Dumpers Chain Conveyors Bucket Elevators Screw Conveyors Screw Reclaimers Pneumatic Conveying SWEDEN: Stockholm Jeffrey Rader AB Domnarvsgatan 11, 163 53 SPÅNGA Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 56 47 57 47 Fax: +46 8 56 47 57 48 See our Biomass video at www.jeffreyrader.com/videoB USA: CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS Jeffrey Rader Corporation 398 Willis Road Woodruff, SC, USA 29388 Phone: 864.476.7523 Fax: 864.476.7510 CANADA: Montreal, Quebec Jeffrey Rader Canada 2350 Place Trans-Canadienne Dorval, Quebec H9P 2X5 Canada Phone: 514.822.2660 Fax: 514.822.2699 CANADA: Vancouver, BC Jeffrey Rader Canada Unit 2, 62 Fawcett Road Coquitlam, BC V3K 6V5 Canada Phone: 604.299.0241 Fax: 604.299.1491 For information on how Jeffrey Rader Corporation can solve your Biomass Handling needs, visit us at www.jeffreyrader.com/bio2 8 Canadian BIOMASS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010
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