Contents 12 26 28 31 37


Front cover: Drax, UK. Formerly 6 x 660


MW coal plant, now a leader in biomass, and looking to add carbon capture. See p 30.


Regulars


04 World news 39 Power plant products 41 Classified 42 Contacts


Repurposing coal plants


12


What to do with your potentially stranded assets? Conversion to energy storage and switching to wood based fuel are among the options


How to repower 2 TWe of coal by 2050


Repowering the coal plant fleet with small modular reactors: a major carbon abatement opportunity?


16


Nuclear technology Whatever became of the PBMR?


It’s alive and well and living in the USA, where about a dozen South African nuclear engineers and scientists who were involved with South Africa’s abandoned Pebble Bed Moduar Reactor are developing a similar concept


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The power of the Dual Fluid principle


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High efficiency is a key differentiator of the new nuclear power technology being developed by Dual Fluid


23 Energy storage


Grid-scale renewable energy storage – the impossible dream?


How much grid energy storage do we need to accommodate renewables and how much will it cost? Back of envelope calculations suggest some very large numbers


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Neoen’s next big Australian battery under construction


Neoen contract for Saft


Wärtsilä enters the Dutch market with the country’s biggest energy storage system to date


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Wind power Baltyk breakthrough for Siemens


Celtic Sea 30


Gamesa and its SG 14-236 DD RWE signs its largest ever PPA with EDF Developing floating wind H2


Biomass & waste


Drax takes next steps towards negative emissions Drax plans major capital investments as it embarks on the “first phase” of its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project


Digital collaboration at Wiesbaden


ARIKON and Doosan Lentjes believe they are “breaking new ground together in terms of digital collaboration”


32


Boilers and HRSGs Rentech selected for Ford’s new CHP


plant


Excess air reduction and boiler cleaning: key issues for WtE plants


Biofuelled tequila: Hurst calls the shots


Grate ideas for improved flame monitoring from Valmet Japan looks to ammonia co-firing Electrode boiler for Ejstrupholm


37 Fire safety


Smart vegetation satellite monitoring for wildfire prevention


Smart monitoring, combining high resolution satellite images with AI, looks like a promising way of preventing wildfires caused by powerlines


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