Turboden provides an ORC system to Maine Woods Pellet, a leading pellet manufacturer based in Athens, Maine (USA). Turboden supplied a biomass ORC unit to produce 8 MWe, the largest biomass solution produced by Turboden nowadays, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

The plant is successfully in operation since October 2016 and, has already outperformed the expected power output, producing 9 MWe.

Thanks to this solution, the customer utilizes wood waste from forestry operations (logging and sawmill residues) to generate electricity to be employed in its production process.

This cogeneration plant uses a novel combination of both exhaust and condenser heat to pre-dry the feedstock for the existing pellet plant, making this the first biomass project to fully qualify for Massachusetts Standard Class 1 regulations for Renewable Energy Credits (REC’s).

Turboden, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries company, is an Italian company and a global leader in the design, manufacture, and after-sales of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbogenerators for distributed power generation employing renewable sources and waste heat.