BIOMASS POWER-HOW MITR PHOL SUGAR AND ALSTOM MADE IT HAPPEN

MITR PHOL SUGAR, Thailand’s leading sugar producer, is currently installing two 40 MW biomass-fired cogeneration plants at their Dan Chang and Phu Khieo mills in central Thailand. The plants, supplied under turnkey contracts by ALSTOM, are designed to optimise the needs of producing process steam to the mill during the sugar season and to generate onto the grid throughout the year. There are many pportunities for biomass-fired generation in Australia and Asia, but too few have been realised. This paper looks at some of the critical success factors of the project and how plant design is turned into economic value.