Plant Descriptions and Operations
Edenderry Power Plant is a Peat Fired Condensing Power Plant.
The main plant data are as follows: Boiler
- Bubbling Fluidised Bed Boiler (Kvaerner Pulping Oy)three stage HP Superheater
- Two radial type Flue Gas (I.D.) Fans, capacity 2*60%
- Fluidising Gas Nozzles
- Rotary regenerative type flue gas Air Preheater
- C. 180 tonnes sand of which 100 fluidised
- Normal bed temperature 910 degrees C
- Electrostatic Precipitator for Dust Removal
- SO2 Abatement system
| Turbine | Two cylinder, triple pressure condensing machine operating at 3,000RPM |
| Cooling System | Forced Draft Cooling Towers (seven) |
| Fuel Consumption | One million tonnes Biomass/year |
| Electrical Output | 120MW/c. 980GWh per year |
| Plant Efficiency | 38.4% |
| Make-up | Water 220m3/hour abstracted from river Figile at Clonbullogue |
| Emissions | Strict IPPC licence from EPA |
| Ash | c. 32,000 tonnes/year to licensed landfill |
The plant is scheduled to operate 24*7 and is manned at all times. We complete one major outage on an annual basis and two further minor shutdowns principally for boiler cleaning in order to maintain optimium plant efficiency.
