Manufacturing Excellence Awards highlight and reward best and innovative practices of industrial enterprises in the context of their operation, including quality work in the production and supply chain, environmental initiatives, human resources development and their contribution to the development of local and national economy.
Viopar Energy is the gold winner in the energy sector of the 2020 Awards as an innovator in producing electrical power with biomass combustion, under its 5MW Production License acquired by the competent Regulator Authority for Energy (RAE).
The company’s facilities include the electrical power generation infrastructure, the thermal plant for the biomass combustion and the flue gases treatment units, as well as the biomass storage and supply system. All systems are fully automated and are controlled via PLCs, while all operations are controlled via SCADA systems based on a high-end set-up, always with respect to the protection of the environment and the health and safety of the employees.
The plant’s anti-pollution technology is very advanced. The emissions of the exhaustion fumes (flue gases) are appropriately treated and monitored to be always under the allowed ranges of the plant’s environmental permit, avoiding any environmental issue or incident. As such, no chemical compounds that could harm the environment are released, while the solid particles (dust) are retained by a large twin-electrostatic precipitator.
The only residue from the entire process is the ash generated from the biomass combustion, nevertheless it is widely used in several applications, such as an additive in the production of concrete, as well as within soil enrichment and composting processes. Viopar Energy's plant is proud to be among the biomass combustion plants with the lowest CO emissions in the world.
Also, Plant Magazine, published by the awards’ publications, dedicated an editorial to Viopar Energy’s win which highlighted the innovative aspect of producing electrical energy with biomass combustion without harming the environment.
