Once again in the history of successful CTS projects, the end of one commission is on the horizon, as the production run at the Kaukaan Voima (KauVo) biopower plant has started.

CTS's highly skilled project team together with specialists from ÅF-Consult has again managed to demonstrate its technical expertise, flexibility and resourcefulness in what is a very demanding area of design work. The very positive verbal and written feedback received from the customer during the course of the project attests to this. Of course, every project has its own problems and difficulties. Fortunately, these have been very minor at KauVo, given the scale of the job.

The KauVo project has helped CTS staff to continue to broaden their expertise in the field of energy engineering and to develop and diversify the companys range of services alongside the project.

The two and a half years spent on this project is bound to have enormous importance for the future development of the energy business generally. We are not in a position to estimate its value as yet, but it will not be long before CTS´s hugely increased expertise will begin to reap its rewards.

CTS will be continuing to produce the project's 'as built' documentation for some areas.

BIOMASS-FIRED POWER PLANT

Kaukaan Voima Oy, Lappeenranta, Finland,

New bio-fuel fired CHP power plant 385 MWth / 125 MWe.

CTS was in charge of plant engineering work including layout design of the plant and mill area, implementation engineering and procurement planning of automation, electrification and power distribution, as well as piping and structural steel design, district heat system and BOP.

The power plant is located on UPM's Kaukas mill site. It supplies process steam and electricity to UPM's Kaukas mills, as well as district heat and electricity to Lappeenranta Energia Oy.

The plant's energy sources are bark and forest energy i.e. logging residues, stumps and small wood from thinnings as well as peat. Its heat power is equivalent to 385 MWth. The power plant has started operation in spring 2010

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