West Fraser Timber Company’s Chetwynd Forest Industries plant will receive clean, carbon-neutral power from the biomass heat recovery power plant.
The Chetwynd Forest Industries plant utilizes two Turboden 65 HRS Organic Rankine Cycle turbogenerators, which will use thermal oil from a new biomass system installed to burn the plant’s residual hog fuel.
Two Turboden 65 HRS systems will be delivered to West Fraser by the end of next year, with installation and commissioning expected in 2014.
Commercial operation of the Chetwynd plant is planned by the second quarter of 2014 and it produces 280mmfbm of lumber products per year.
Under the BC Hydro Bioenergy Phase II Call for Power program, BC Hydro selected West Fraser for two of their sites totaling 180GWh/year from wood biomass.
Through the program, BC Hydro awarded 20-year electricity purchase agreements to West Fraser.
West Fraser is a wood products company with operations in western Canada and the southern US.
