Burners are an often forgotten but essential element in industries requiring heat in boilers, furnaces, and other processes. These crucial pieces of equipment play a major role in ensuring plants operate smoothly and efficiently, burning a full range of fuels to enable the generation of heat and energy for internal use or to supply the grid. Today, burners also play a major environmental role as many industries switch to renewable fuels, and they are often installed to handle side streams from production processes. 

ANDRITZ develops, designs, and installs tailor-made burner systems capable of burning almost any fuel available, which is appealing for any industries and companies looking to transform away from fossil fuels.

“We have a great team designing and tailor-making burners to suit a wide variety of applications,” says Lauri Tuominen, Director Recovery and Power Side Streams Services at ANDRITZ. “These burner solutions are vital to our projects related to reducing odor emissions at pulp mills, and to reducing carbon emissions by performing a fuel conversion to biofuels.”

ANDRITZ provides the whole range of burner systems across many industries, including pulp and paper, energy, metallurgy, and process industries. With a deep understanding of the customer processes and the ability to deliver bespoke burner solutions including erection, piping, pressure pipe modification, and automation, ANDRITZ sets itself apart from other suppliers.

“When customers have very demanding and harsh process conditions, we ensure our equipment is the perfect fit for their needs. We can achieve fuel flexibility without needing to carry out significant modifications to the main process. In addition, we can assist customers in the introduction of side streams to bring additional value to their mills and plants,” says Perttu Jukola, Product Director, Burners at ANDRITZ.

SUSTAINABLE FUELS – SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO CUSTOMERS

As well as burner systems for boilers in pulp, paper, and energy, ANDRITZ supplies burner solutions designed to utilize industrial side streams, biofuels, and other sustainable fuels. Generating green energy results in the reduction of CO₂ at mills and plants. Even streams previously considered as waste can be processed to produce valuable chemicals and raw materials instead of going for incineration.

“The use of side streams has become an important area of focus at pulp mills, in particular, as they are being rapidly transformed into biorefineries. This is due to the ability these mills have to recover chemicals and biofuels from the pulping process,” says Jukola. “This has a number of financial benefits to our customers as it means they can avoid emission penalties set by the regulators, as well as use recovered side streams in internal processes.”