Foster Wheeler Bags Finnish Biomass-to-Liquids Contract

Foster Wheeler says it has been awarded a contract by NSE Biofuels (Helsinki) for a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) biomass gasifier at Varkaus, Finland. Financial terms were not disclosed. Foster Wheeler will provide an oxygen-steam gasifier and gas treatment equipment for NSE Biofuels’ biomass-to-liquids project, which will convert a “wide spectrum of biomass” into feedstock for renewable diesel via the Fischer-Tropsch, gas-to-liquids process. Start up is scheduled for early 2009. NSE Biofuels is a 50-50 joint venture between Stora Enso...

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