Electricity generation Sweden

Sweden s wood- or charcoal-fueled engines supplied between 10 and 200 HP. They were primarily for over-the-road vehicles, but farm equipment, fishing vessels, road-paving equipment and stationary engines for driving compressors and electric generators were also powered by the wood or charcoal gasifiers. 

In the United States, some 8000 MWe of biomass-fueled electricity generating capacity are installed primarily as combined heat and power production systems. In Europe biomass is mainly used for the provision of heat and, to a minor extent, for electricity production. In mral areas biomass is used traditionally for heating purposes. Electricity production has become more important in recent years due to environmentally motivated policy measures (e.g., the Feed-in Law for electricity from renewables in Germany, the C02-tax in Sweden). In average, however, only the use of firewood in households as well as industrial application in the wood processing industry are of major importance in Europe (for example, firewood covers almost 75% of biofuel use in Europe). The use of wood and other organic material for district heating is important in only a few countries (e.g., Denmark, Finland, Austria). 

Nuclear power stations in OECD countries provided an average of 12.8 per cent of electrical generating system capacity and 17.9 per cent of electricity generation in 1984 and are expected to provide about 19 per cent and 26 per cent respectively by the year 2000 (Table 6.1). Nuclear power supplied more than 20 per cent of the total electricity generation in Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland in 1984. 

In flue gases MISiC sensors can be used to either monitor the gas components, such as CO, nitric oxide (NO), and oxygen, or identify different modes of combustion in the boilers of small power plants. In this way, it is possible to optimize the combustion in boilers of about 0.5-5 MW in which optical techniques such as Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) are too expensive and complex. The authors have performed measurements in a 100-MW boiler, which has been used to heat houses and industries and generate electricity in Nykoping, Sweden, and in which there was a natural randomization of the flue gases [59]. Data was collected over several... 

The common industrial practice of combusting wood to generate electricity and operate pulp and paper mills has been identified as a source of environmental PCDD/Fs. A study of PCDD/F emissions from seven wood-burning facilities in Switzerland showed that emissions ranged from 0.004 to 9.820 ng TEQ Nm-3 (0.048 to 117.8ng TEQ kg-1), with the majority of values being greater than 0.1 ng TEQ Nm-3 (the TEQ emission limit for waste incineration plants in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden).31 PCDD/F emissions from... 

In June 1991, Sydkrafr took the final decision to build a co-generation plant at Vamamo, Sweden, to demonstrate the technology. The plant generates 6 MW of electricity and 9 MW of heat for district heating. 

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