Wood handling for energy

Valmet's wood handling concept incorporates all process stages, from infeed to storage, and process solutions for any climate and wood species. Valmet also provides external fuel handling solutions.

The Valmet Drum Chipper is especially designed to handle a energy biomass and large variety of wood qualities, combining high capacity with excellent chipping performance.

Our screening solutions include pre-screening, metal separation and rotating crusher for oversize particles, such as screening overs, lumps, knots, stumps, log ends and wood residue.

Valmet Biomass Dryer offers low temperature, proven technology for drying of biomass, such as bark, forest residue, sawdust, bagasse etc. Dried biomass can be utilized as a valuable energy source in gasification processes, pelletizing and power boilers.

Valmet offers a wide range of conveyors to efficiently transport chips and bark between the different wood handling process stages at power plants.

Our solutions

Chipping

Valmet has supplied more than 2000 heavy duty chippers to date, which is half of the entire number of disc chippers for the fiber processing industry worldwide. This has given us a valuable insight into chipper durability in tough conditions. Our wide experience has been utilized in the development of the chippers we have today. Valmet can offer, and have long experience of, both gravity feed and horizontal feed type of chippers.

Chip screening

A screening stage is often necessary to achieve the uniform chip size demanded in different processes. Valmet’s concept for chip screening includes several screening options, all designed for effective removal of oversize and fine fractions from the chip flow.

Bark handling

The bark from the debarking process can be transformed into useful energy in a mill's power plant. The energy value is dependent on the dry content of the bark.

Conveyor systems

Valmet offers a wide range of conveyors to efficiently transport chips and bark between the different process stages in the wood handling area and further on in the pulp mill, panelboard or power plant.

Energy solutions

We offer you a single point of responsibility for project delivery and services, covering the entire lifecycle of the plant.

Biomass to Energy

We have a wide range of solutions, such as CFB and BFB boilers, gasifiers, pyrolyzers, and modular power plants, for high-efficiency power production based on various kinds of biofuels.

Our expertise is at your service

Our focus is to bring your performance forward. Our expertise in sustainable energy production is at your disposal. Get in touch with our specialists through your local Valmet office, or the link below.