Valmet to provide automation technology for Scottish WtE facility

Finnish process technologies provider Valmet Corp (HEL:VALMT) has been contracted to provide automation technology for a 25-MW waste-to-energy (WtE) facility that is being built on the former Westfield opencast coal site in central Scotland.

The order, placed by Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (HZI), concerns the provision of the Valmet DNA Automation System, including a web-based Valmet DNA User Interface, an information activity server and a boiler safety system with 2,200 hardwired signals and 8,150 gateway signals.

The deliveries are scheduled to start in August 2023 with the system expected to be taken over by the customer in April 2025, a press release said on Monday.

The Westfield Energy Centre will consist of an incineration line and a grate boiler, designed to treat up to 220,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste per year, Valmet said.

Construction of the Westfield site started in December 2021 and the facility is expected to become operational in the first quarter of 2025, according to the project website.

The project is developed by Brockwell Energy Ltd, a subsidiary of Hargreaves Services, which acquired the site after the collapse of Scottish Coal in 2013. Hitachi Zosen was hired to engineer, procure, construct, operate and maintain the plant that was originally announced as a 79-MWth/23-MWe capacity site.

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