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Site Location
Site Location

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Operators Annual Report


Input Data

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Output Data

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UPM Shotton Biomass Facility
UPM Shotton Biomass Facility


Summary

A Biomass Waste CHP EFW based at the UPM Shotton newsprint mill in Flintshire, north Wales generating 24.8 MWe[1] from a feedstock of waste paper, fibre, sludge and small amounts of waste wood[2]. The plant provides up to 70% of the paper mill's energy production[1]. Most of the energy is consumed in the manufacture of mechanical pulp, pumping and paper drying[3]. In 2016 a second steam turbine was brought on line at the facility which utilises excess steam from the biomass CHP plant[4].

The biomass facility cost an estimated £59m[5].

Plant

The technology in use at the plant is a Bubbling Fluidised bed system[2].

Local Authority Users

The plant manufacturers newsprint solely from recovered paper which is received from a number of local authority contracts throughout the UK[6].

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