Drax Power Limited has signed an £18M ($26M) Design and Build contract with C. Spencer Limited to supply rail unloading equipment and biomass bulk storage and handling systems to feed the direct injection biomass co-firing systems currently being installed at the UK’s 4,000MW Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire. This is the final contract to be awarded for the 400MW biomass co-firing project.
Co-firing involves the mixing and burning of renewable biomass materials with coal. The rail unloading and storage systems represent a major component of the new co-firing facility at Drax and are designed to receive and transport processed biomass materials to be fired in the power station’s coal-fired boilers....
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