Converting Boiler to Use Biomass Fuel: Drax

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Submitted by Satish Verma on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 15:10

Drax, which is the UK’s largest power station, is prepared to convert one of its coal-fired boilers to make use of biomass, as the start of a move towards something that could finally see it move completely to ‘green’ fuel.

Even though Drax has burnt biomass for seven years, it has done so only by ‘co-firing’ and mixing it with huge quantities of coal.

This would be the foremost time that any chief power station had taken up an existing coal-fired turbine and changed it to be biomass-only.

Dorothy Thompson, Chief Executive of Drax, said the potential of biomass was being unnoticed.

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