Port engineering expert, Spencer Group, is delivering a multi-million pound contract to create the facility to load sustainable biomass on to rail wagons which can then be transported from the Port to Drax Power Station near Selby.<\/p>\n
Matt Jukes, ABP port director for Hull and Goole, said: \u201cThis facility will be the first to be completed as part of the ABP\u2019s Humber-wide agreement with Drax and will ensure that we remain at the very forefront of the developing renewables industry.\u201d<\/p>\n
The biomass loading facility will have a capacity of 3,000 cubic metres and will be capable of storing up to 1,800 tonnes of wood pellets for discharge into the rail wagons. The system will be able to load up to 30 rail wagons with 1,500 tonnes of material in just 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
Its rail loading system will be similar to one constructed by Spencer Group at the Port of Tyne in 2010, which it says was the first of its kind in the world at that time.<\/p>\n
The biomass loading project is part of an investment of \u00a3100m in the Humber Ports related to a 15 year contract between port operator ABP and Drax Power Limited to handle biomass shipments destined for Drax Power Station.<\/p>\n
Drax is executing plans to convert three of its six generating units to burn sustainable biomass as it transforms the business into a predominantly biomass-fuelled generator over the next few years.<\/p>\n
The biomass facility is due to be commissioned in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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