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The Project is a bundled project which involves the construction and operation of two 11.5MW biomass power plants in Sarawak, Malaysia. The power plants, to be built in Kuching and Mukah, will each be built to the same specifications. The plants are expected to export 10MW of power to the Sarawak Grid, and Sarawak Energy, the grid operator, has agreed to purchase all the electricity produced by the two plants.
The power plants are to be fuelled using empty fruit bunches (EFBs) obtained from Malaysia’s palm oil industry as the feedstock. The EFBs will be brought to the site by truck from the surrounding palm oil plantations, of which there are many, and where the EFBs are disposed of in solid waste disposal sites. To improve the quality of EFBs as a fuel, the moisture content will be reduced by mechanically shredding and pressing them before combustion. Each plant will process approximately 36 tonnes per hour of EFB feedstock. Once the EFBs have been mechanically treated to reduce moisture content, this will equate to approximately 23 tonnes per hour of processed biomass for combustion in the boiler.
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