French nuclear giant AREVA to build 6 biomass plants in Thailand and Brazil

France-based multinational industrial conglomerate AREVA announces that it has been awarded contracts to build six biomass power stations – four in Brazil and two in Thailand – worth more than €70 (US$92) million.

The power plants have a capacity of between 10 and 12MW each and will be fuelled by wood waste and agro-forestry residues in the case of the Brazilian plants, and by rice hulls, an abundant biomass resource in Thailand (see our earlier post on highly dedicated and optimized fluidized bed combustors for rice hulls, and on the energy potential of this resource).
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