KGRA is installing an 800kW organic Rankine cycle power generation system at the Weyerhaeuser Company’s lumber mill near Greenville, North Carolina. Read the Press Releases.
KGRA’s subsidiary Ayden HTP Partners LLC is designing and constructing the 800kW waste heat recovery system, which is scheduled to come online in the summer of 2011. It will recover waste heat from Weyerhaeuser’s biomass-based thermal drying system to generate 4.5 million kWh of CO₂-free electricity per year. KGRA’s system will displace the equivalent of more than 9 million pounds of carbon dioxide each year.
The organic Rankine cycle equipment being installed in Weyerhaeuser’s Greenville, NC lumber mill was made in America. Additionally, the project is expected to create 19.7 American jobs throughout the development, construction and installation process.
Weyerhaeuser and Ayden HTP Partners LLC, a joint-venture between KGRA Energy and the ORC equipment supplier, TAS Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Turbine Air Systems, LTD, completed the agreement in March 2011. Installation of the project began in June and the plant intends to be operational by the end of July 2011.
ORC installed to thermal oil system sitting on concrete containment pad
TAS Skid
The ORC system is being craned into place on the concrete footing
The ORC with the biomass boiler in the background
The air-cooled condensers being set into place on the concrete footing
