WOIMA is hiring a Mechanical and Piping Design Engineer!

WOIMA, a Finnish supplier of best-in-class waste-to-value products worldwide, is seeking a motivated Mechanical and Piping Design Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will contribute to cutting-edge projects in the renewable energy sector, playing a key role in mechanical and piping design for modular power plant solutions. What will you be doing? In this role, you'll take charge of Mechanical and Piping engineeri...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Summary of Additional Plant Operation Revenue

The combined continuous revenue potential during the operation and maintenance of the wasteWOIMA® plant amounts up to 47,000,000 €. However, the last to revenue sources are fully dependent on finding suitable off-take customers and sites, and thus the typical revenue potential can be considered to be up to 26,000,000 €. The revenue is mainly a result of High plant availability and efficiency Robust and flexib...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Flexible Power Output Revenue

The small-to-medium-scale wasteWOIMA® WtE plant can be easily located adjacent to an energy off-taker enabling the sale of thermal energy instead of or in addition to electricity . A one-boiler-island wasteWOIMA20 plant generates annually roughly 3 MWe (net), i.e. ~35,000 MWh or 2 MWe (net), i.e. ~18,000 MWh + 13.5 MWth, i.e. ~110,000 MWh or 24 tph of superhea...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Direct Electricity Sales Revenue

Due to the faster project development and delivery phases of the wasteWOIMA® WtE plant, it reaches positive net cashflow earlier that traditional stick-built plants. This early positive cashflow can significantly affect the project’s profitability and thus its feasibility. The small-to-medium-scale wasteWOIMA® WtE plant can be easily located in, or adjacent to, an industrial park to power their operations directly. A one-boi...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Early Positive Cashflow Revenue

Due to the faster project development and delivery phases of the wasteWOIMA® WtE plant, it reaches positive net cashflow earlier that traditional stick-built plants. This early positive cashflow can significantly affect the project’s profitability and thus its feasibility. Faster project payback has also a positive impact on WtE plant owner’s gearing ratio, which affects their risk carrying capacity and cost of money. The e...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Better Condenser Efficiency Revenue

The wasteWOIMA® WtE power plant’s electricity generation capability is somewhat dependent on the plant’s condensing capacity, i.e. the level of vacuum that the condenser(s) can generate to enable the turbine to extract every last ounce of energy out of the steam flow. As standard, the wasteWOIMA® plant uses modular air-cooled condensers (ACC) that are Easy to deliver Fast to install ...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Better Turbine Efficiency Revenue

There are several steam turbine suppliers in the marketplace even in the small-to-medium-scale range that the wasteWOIMA® WtE power plant represents. Each supplier has slightly different approach to the business with emphasis on e.g. Maximal power output Reliability Low lifecycle costs Easy scalability Resilience to ambient conditions The selection of the right turb...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Higher Steam Parameter Revenue

Currently, the wasteWOIMA® WtE power plant uses very conservative steam parameters (400oC / 40 barg) to ensure high availability, low maintenance costs and overall reduced risks related to fuel quality. These steam parameters are used independent of the fuel, i.e. even with “easy” fuels that pose less risks for heat corrosion. Several key factors affect the power plant’s power output, such as Steam quality
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Sludge Firing Revenue

The grate firing system in the wasteWOIMA® WtE power plant is quite flexible and can accept a wide range of heterogenous solid waste fuels with LHV above 7 MJ/kg and moisture content below 55%. On top of this, a small amount (up to 10%) of low-calorific-value sludges can be added to the fuel mix and reduced to easily disposable bottom ash (slag) in the grate incineration process. Although the sludges contain very little energy, their small quantity does not affect th...
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Monetizing wasteWOIMA® Benefits – Wide Fuel Range Revenue

The waste fuel incineration process is one of the three key functions of any power plant besides the heat recovery boiler and flue gas treatment (FGT) system. Its purpose is to combust heterogeneous solid waste fuels flexibly to homogenous flue gas with good efficiency and with high tolerance for inert particles, such as metals, gravel and sand. Waste incineration is also a major source of income for the plant through tipping fees besides energy sales since w...
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