Baltania OÜ has awarded Pöyry with an assignment for Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services for the new Torrefied Pellet Plant project in Vägari, Estonia. The assignment includes project management, basic engineering, procurement and site supervision services, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
This project is a step forward in energy transition from fossil fuels to bio-coal made from renewable biomass. For this purpose, Baltania has brought together the best parties to build a commercial, industrial scale torrefied pellet plant using the latest state-of-the-art technology.
The construction of this new production plant is expected to be completed during 1Q 2020 and when in full operation it will produce 157,000 t/a of torrefied pellets made of sustainable biomass sourced from forestry wastes and by-products of wood processing industry.
Torrefaction is a thermochemical process applied to biomass which transforms it into a homogeneous fuel (bio-coal) with remarkably superior handling, energy density, water resistance and grindability properties that make it comparable with fossil coal and a sustainable replacement of fossil coal in power generation plants and other processes.
Pöyry is an international consulting and engineering company.
