Displaying items by tag: metso

Södra Cell Mörrum enhances process management in kraft pulping with new Metso Kappa Q analyzers.

Metso has delivered a second order for a large Kappa Q analyzer unit to Södra's Mörrum plant. The delivered analyzer replaces Mörrum's retiring Metso Kappa analyzers after a long service of over fifteen years. The new analyzer includes the online Kappa and Brightness measurements and, as a new feature to the previous ones, online Fiber and Shives measurements. The fiber properties measurements open a new door to even tighter pulp quality and process control through the whole fiber line from cooking to baling.

"The start up was successful and now the production has got an additional strong tool to improve both quality and capacity. Metso's way of managing and running things for the installation and start up is very professional," says Project Manager Sigurd Björkman, Södra Cell Mörrum.

A first order for a new Metso Kappa Q analyzer was placed in May 2011 to replace the existing analyzer installations. The analyzer had two cabinets both with separate washing and measuring chambers. One of the cabinets was equipped with brightness and the other with kappa and brightness measurements. Additionally, there was online fiber and shive measurement for all process sampling locations.

Södra Cell Mörrum mill is a Nordic pioneer in using Metso Kappa and Brightness analyzers as the key online measurements to manage kraft pulping in producing high quality pulp for global markets. The Mörrum mill purchased their first Kappa analyzer from Metso over fifteen years ago, and Mörrum's impact on solutions development of the online brightness analyzer, in cooperation with Metso in the mid-nineteen-nineties, was substantial. During their lifecycle, the analyzers carried out altogether 4.5 million measurements. After well over a decade's usage of two Kappa analyzers and a Brightness analyzer the mill decided to gradually replace the old analyzers with recently released modern Metso Kappa Q technology.

The Södra Cell Mörrum mill has several other Metso analyzers and sensor installations, such as Metso Alkali analyzers in the caustification plant and different versions of Cormec and Polarox inline-measurements of pulp brightness and residual chemicals.

Södra Cell Mörrum is a leading paper pulp producer in the world and part of the Södra company. Annually, Södra Cell produces 360,000 tons of pulp of which 87% is exported.

The long-term relationship between Sappi Ngodwana and Metso is strengthened by a new contract for automated valves and services to increase the mill's efficiency.

Metso will deliver all the automated process valves required for Sappi's fiberline expansion in the Ngodwana mill in South Africa. In this project, called Go-Cell, the existing fiberline is being expanded to produce chemical (specialised) cellulose, also known as dissolving pulp. In total, over 700 automated valves will be delivered during the final quarter of 2012, and the mill start-up is scheduled for early 2013.

Metso was chosen as a supplier because of the proven quality and reliability of its solutions in similar applications worldwide. The existing, large installed valve base in the mill makes it beneficial for Sappi to select Neles products once again, as this will facilitate the successful management of shutdowns, inventories and spare parts. The decision to choose Metso was further reinforced by the long relationship between the organisations and the excellent service support provided to the mill.

Metso will supply all the automated on-off and control valves with intelligent Profibus positioners for the new fiberline, and for upgraded process areas in evaporation, recausticising and ash leaching. The delivery includes valves in stainless steel, duplex stainless steel, titanium, SMO and ceramic material in sizes from DN25 to DN500. All valves are equipped with pneumatic cylinder actuators and intelligent positioners or limit switches. The delivery also comprises Neles metal-seated ball valves, segment and triple eccentric Neldisc butterfly valves as well as Jamesbury soft-seated ball valves.

In addition to typical process valves, Metso will also supply specially designed high-consistency valves for the fiberline as well as capping and discharge valves for six batch digesters for the cooking plant. All these high-performance solutions will support the mill's goals of increased efficiency and reduced energy consumption.

The expanded fiberline will produce 210, 000 tonnes per annum of chemical (specialised) cellulose, which is widely used in the textile, pharmaceutical and food industries. Sappi is the global leader in chemical (specialised) cellulose production.

Experienced in valves

Metso is the leading provider of valve solutions and services. Metso's Flow Control solutions include control valves, automated on/off and emergency shut-down valves, as well as smart positioners and condition monitoring technology. Metso's world-leading brands include Neles, Jamesbury and Mapag.

Due to Metso's strong position in advanced valves technology, services are a major part of their offering. Several of their service centers are located close to major production facilities in order to support customers. For valve customers, Metso already has 32 service centers around the globe, and a new supply and service center was opened in India last spring. 

Xiamen Xinyang Paper’s new Metso-supplied tissue machine came on stream one week ahead of schedule on September 10, 2012, in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China. Only nine days later, after five days of continuous operation, the machine reached the operating speed of 1,900 m/min.

“We are very satisfied with the new record we have set on the process of commissioning, start-up and speed-up,” says Chen Qi, Chairman of Xinyang Paper Corporation.

“This record fast start-up process is the result of very good cooperation and efficient team work between Xiamen Xinyang Paper and Metso’s personnel. It also proves that our technology is optimized for customer needs, efficient installation and highly efficient production,” says Stefan Ziegel, Project Manager, Metso.

Metso’s delivery comprised a complete production line with stock preparation equipment and an Advantage DCT 200 HS tissue machine including an OptiFlo II TIS multi-layer headbox, a Metso Yankee cylinder, an Advantage AirCap hood, an Advantage WetDust dust management system and an Advantage SoftReel reel. The delivery also featured Metso’s patented AdvantageViscoNip pressing technology and BlackBelt shoe press belt. The production line will be optimized to enhance final product quality and save energy.

The delivery also comprised an extensive automation package including Metso DNA machine, process and integrated drive controls, and a Metso IQ quality control system with a Metso IQ Scanner and a Metso IQ Fiber sensor.

With a width of 5.6 m and a maximum operating speed of 2,000 m/min, the new production line will produce 60,000 tonnes a year of high-quality facial, toilet and towel grades. The raw material for the new line will be virgin pulp.

Xiamen Xinyang Paper Co., Ltd. was established in 2009 by four state-owned companies based in Fujian Province, China: Xiamen Shun-Cheng Asset Management Co., Ltd, Xiamen Haicang Investment Group Co., Ltd, Nanping Paper Co., Ltd and Xiamen Construction & Development Group Co., Ltd. The first phase in the company’s investment plan is a tissue mill for producing 60,000 tonnes a year of facial, toilet and towel grades. 

The new Metso Recovery Analyzer represents the latest generation of fully automatic titrators for chemicals recovery optimization. In addition to the well proven causticizing measurements, the new Metso Recovery Analyzer also features unique on-line reduction degree measurement technology which together with process optimizing controls enables more environmentally friendly operation, higher process throughput and maximum uptime and savings in cleaning chemical and fresh lime costs.

Using fully automatic real time sampling and standard titration methods, the new Metso Recovery Analyzer improves recovery boiler combustion and reduction efficiency. It consistently measures the absolute values of Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Sulfide, and Sodium Carbonate, in addition to Sodium Sulphate. It calculates Reduction Degree, Effective Alkali (EA), Active Alkali (AA), Total Titratable Alkali (TTA), Causticizing Degree (CE%), and Sulfidity (S%).

Multiple benefits for operations

Offering more environmentally friendly recovery boiler operation, the new analyzer measurements can be utilized in advanced recovery boiler process controls for dissolving density tank control, combustion air control and liquor burning optimization for improved and consistent chemicals reduction. The advanced diagnostics and remote assistance possibility ensure the analyzer uptime can be maintained at the highest possible level at any location in the world.

Better control of chemical recovery and causticizing efficiency provides consistent high quality white liquor for the digester, while improved process stability enables higher process throughput and maximum uptime with reduced scaling and fouling. Harmful over- and under-liming is eliminated and white liquor filters require less frequent cleaning, resulting in increased causticizing output, savings in cleaning chemical costs and reduced fresh lime consumption.

Built on years of experience

"What we have developed is genuinely new and revolutionary, the addition of the reduction degree measurement opens new potential for recovery boiler operation," says Jarmo Koskinen, Business Manager.

Built on years of experience gained with the earlier causticizing analyzer, the new device incorporates the most up-to-date technology with well tested techniques to cover the wider needs of the whole liquor cycle. Metso has paid special attention to the clear and informative interface providing basic measurement data for process operators, tuning and diagnostic information for E&I technicians and detailed measurement data for process development engineers via an Ethernet link.

Metso Paper Inc. has today signed a Letter of Intent with Walpella Oy regarding transfer of business and contract manufacturing concerning parts manufacturing, automation manufacturing, internal goods receiving logistics and warehouse functions at its Järvenpää unit in Finland. The target of the parties is to implement the transfer of business by November 30, 2012. The value of the deal (a transfer of business) is not disclosed. The deal will have no significant impact on Metso’s results.

The personnel of the respective operations, 87 persons in all, will transfer to the new employer under their existing employment contracts. Metso’s unit in Järvenpää has a total of over 900 employees.

The deal includes the machinery and equipment for manufacturing. The buyer will continue to operate in Metso’s premises as a contract manufacturer making equipment for Metso.

The sale is part of Metso Paper’s work to develop its production structure in order to improve customer service and competitiveness amid the toughening global competition. 

Metso announced on September 1, 2011 that it intended reviewing strategic alternatives for its Recycling business. As part of this process, Metso evaluated both external and internal options. The review concluded that integrating Recycling into the Mining and Construction segment was the best possible alternative for creating value for Metso. 

“We are committed to developing the Recycling business as part of our Mining and Construction segment,” says Matti Kähkönen, Metso Corporation’s President and CEO. “We believe that by integrating Recycling in this way we will add value to the Recycling business and for Metso generally in terms of volume growth, cost competitiveness, and developing our overall offering. We are a forerunner and global market leader in metal and waste recycling, and our goal is to further strengthen our position here.”

Recycling will be integrated into Mining and Construction as of December 1, 2012. Restated historical figures for Mining and Construction including the Recycling business will be published later this year.

Recycling had net sales of EUR 212 million in 2011 and the business currently employs approx. 660 people, mainly in Germany, the US and Denmark.

Modern automation technology and sophisticated reporting applications contribute to higher energy efficiency and sustainability at a biopower plant.

The new biopower plant built by Pohjolan Voima, Leppäkosken Sähkö and Metsä Board in Hämeenkyrö, Finland, is extensively controlled with automation supplied by Metso. Inaugurated on October 9, 2012, it is Pohjolan Voima's 15th biopower plant.

Located on Metsä Board's Kyro board and paper mill site, the biopower plant has an electricity capacity of 12 MW and a thermal capacity of 55 MW. It produces electricity and heat for the Kyro mill and district heat for the customers of Leppäkosken Sähkö. The plant runs on wood residues and other wood fuels. Peat is used as a support fuel. The CO2 emissions will be reduced by approximately 100,000 metric tons annually due to the use of domestic fuels instead of natural gas.

Metso supplied a Metso DNA automation system as a complete turnkey package to the plant, including all the stages from engineering to commissioning. Automation is used to control the fluidized bed boiler and the related fuel reception and handling systems. The new boiler has replaced the old natural gas-fired power plant that was controlled with Metso's Damatic XD automation system.

The automation system features high user friendliness. For example, the Metso DNA Trend and Event Archive tool gives the operators access to trend and event history straight from the operator interface. The Metso DNA Information Management system, in turn, includes extensive data collection as well as process performance and emissions control. There are also efficient tools for analyzing disturbances.

Reporting plays a major role in ensuring high plant efficiency. For example, the Metso DNA Solid Fuel Data Management application allows an accurate follow-up of biomass quality and energy content. The shareholder reporting allots the plant's production, consumption and CO2 emissions among the shareholders. The planning of plant operation is supported by an application that calculates electricity production forecasts per shareholder.

The plant condition and operation monitoring has been integrated into the automation system. With the Metso DNA Machine Monitoring application and advanced analysis tools, the staff is able to monitor and analyze the mechanical condition of critical plant equipment, such as the most important pumps and blowers as well as the turbine generator. Thanks to the monitoring, it is possible to foresee and notice equipment damage in good time so that maintenance work can be carried out during planned shutdowns.

Pohjolan Voima produces electricity and heat for its 21 shareholders with hydropower, thermal power and nuclear power. Its shareholders include Finnish export industry companies, energy companies and cities. At the end of 2011, Pohjolan Voima's electricity production capacity totaled 3,510 MW, which represents about 20% of Finland's total electricity production. In 2011, the company's net sales amounted to EUR 1.3 billion, and it employed an average of 487 people.

Leppäkosken Sähkö Group is a versatile energy service company that provides its customers with electricity, district heat and natural gas services and solutions. The parent company, Leppäkosken Sähkö Oy, acts as a distribution network operator in the municipalities of Ikaalinen, Jämijärvi, Kihniö, Parkano, Hämeenkyrö and Ylöjärvi. The Group's subsidiary, Leppäkosken Energia Oy, provides district heat for Ikaalinen, Parkano, Hämeenkyrö, Äetsä in Sastamala and the Ylinen area in Ylöjärvi, as well as distributes natural gas in Ikaalinen. The Group also sells electricity to all parts of Finland. In 2011, its net sales amounted to EUR 36.8 million, and it employed 87 people.

Metsä Board is Europe's leading producer of folding boxboard, the world's leading manufacturer of coated white-top kraftliners, and a major paper supplier. It offers premium solutions for consumer and retail packaging, graphics and office end-uses. Its sales network serves brand owners, carton printers, corrugated packaging manufacturers, printers, merchants and office suppliers. Metsä Board is part of Metsä Group. In 2011, its annual sales totaled EUR 2.5 billion, and it had about 3,600 employees.

Metso has signed an agreement on delivering state of the art automation for Séchilienne-Sidec, one of the market leaders in biomass and solar energy production in France and the French overseas territories. The new Metso DNA automation systems will be installed as retrofits in two of the Séchilienne-Sidec power plants in Reunion and additionally at a plant in Guadeloupe. The delivery for altogether six boiler units will take place between 2013 and 2015.

“We chose Metso’s automation systems because we believe that they provide the best technological and technical solution for a DCS retrofit to control industrial risks,” saysGilles Hassan, Project Manager at Séchilienne-Sidec. “Moreover, we have been satisfied with Metso’s solution that was commissioned in 2011 for our Caribbean energy plant which is located in Guadeloupe.”

Adding new technology to existing power plants is a demanding task that calls for expertise. Metso’s retrofit delivery scope consists of the Metso DNA automation systems with which the power plants will be controlled. A Metso Information Management System, a Metso DNA Control System Simulator, system installation and control system documentation updates are also included in the delivery. The simulator is a virtual learning environment that makes it possible for the operators to practice and learn the Metso DNA operator interface functions.

In Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean, Metso’s systems will be installed at the Compagnie Thermique Bois Rouge power plant with a capacity of 60 MW and the Compagnie Thermique du Gol plant with a capacity of 64 MW. Séchilienne-Sidec produces 57% of the island’s total electricity.

In Guadeloupe, Metso will retrofit the 64 MW Compagnie Thermique du Moulepower plant with new automation. Séchilienne-Sidec produces 31% of the electricity consumed on this island located in the Caribbean Sea. Both in Reunion and Guadeloupe, Séchilienne-Sidec’s power plants run on biomass, such as bagasse.

Séchilienne-Sidec has 20 years of experience in generating electricity from biomass resources. It is also a leading producer of energy from photovoltaic sources, always seeking to use locally available clean and renewable resources. The group’s installed thermal, wind power and solar capacity is 693 MW of which 624 MW is installed in the French overseas territories. The company is headquartered in Paris, France. In 2011, its net sales amounted to EUR 362 million. www.sechilienne-sidec.com 

Metso will rebuild the PM 1 cartonboard machine at the Riyadh mill of Obeikan Paper Industries in Saudi Arabia. The rebuilt production line will be fully operational in the middle of 2013. The value of the order will not be disclosed.

The main target of the rebuild is to improve end product quality, increase capacity and reduce production costs.

“This investment is aligned with Obeikan strategy to keep the mill up-to-date in technology in order to keep feet within the competitive environment of paper industries,” says Mohammed Al-Mowkley, General Manager of Obeikan Paper Industries.

The coater and air system rebuild order is included in Metso’s Pulp, Paper and Power third quarter 2012 orders received and the press section rebuild order is included in the second quarter 2012 orders received.

Technical information
The 3.4-m-wide (wire) PM 1 produces white lined chipboard in the basis weight range of 180-450 g/m2 at the design speed of 600 m/min. The current annual production level is 170,000 tonnes and capacity after the rebuild will be 220,000 tonnes per year.

Metso’s delivery will comprise a rebuild of the press section with a new SymBelt shoe press to increase dry content after the press section. The delivery will also include a new curtain coating station with a one-sided gas-heated air dryer. The new multilayer curtain coating unit adds two coating layers to the web at the same time in a non-contact operation with no speed restrictions. Metso will also take care of installation supervision, commissioning and start-up of the rebuilt machine.

Obeikan Paper Industries is a subsidiary of Obeikan Industrial Investment Group Ltd. It primarily involves in printing and packaging, education and publishing businesses. The company was incorporated in 1983. Obeikan Industrial Investment Group Ltd. is headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Metso to deliver biofuel-fired boiler to Jönköping Energi in Sweden

Metso will supply Jönköping Energi’s combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Torsvik, Sweden, with a new biofuel-fired boiler. Jönköping Energi is expanding its CHP plant and the new unit will serve as a mid-load unit to meet the district heating and electric power needs of Jönköping municipality. The value of the order will not be disclosed.

The expansion and modernization of Jönköping Energi’s plant is a significant investment for the municipality of Jönköping as the existing boilers and related systems are in need of replacement and the new systems will enable replacing use of refined bio-fuels with use of primary biomass fuels. The new boiler utilizing bubbling fluidized bed technology (BFB) will mainly be fueled with wood chips, and Metso’s solution will offer considerable cost-efficiency benefits for the overall district heating and electricity supply of Jönköping municipality.

“This is an important contract for the continuation of the expansion project as well as its largest. We look forward to co-operating with Metso on this important project,” says Håkan Stigmarker, Managing Director of Jönköping Energi.

The expanded CHP plant will be commissioned during fall 2014. The order is included in Metso’s Pulp, Paper and Power third quarter 2012 orders received.

Technical information

The capacity of the new boiler will be 100 MW. The Torsvik plant will annually use roughly 550,000 cubic meters of forest fuels. It will produce approximately 340 GWh of district heat per year, corresponding to the heating needs of 17,000 single-family homes. The production of electricity will amount to 130 GWh/year, corresponding to the power consumption of roughly 25,000 households.

Jönköping Energi AB has 240 employees and is owned by the municipality of Jönköping. Jönköping Energi AB supplies electricity, heat, cooling, biogas and broadband to 55,000 customers in the Jönköping area, and has an annual net sales of about EUR 120 million.