Soluciones Integrales de Combustión is awarded a gas-biogas mixed fuel steam boiler in the food sector of the Community of Valencia. The project is part of the commitment to environmental sustainability and the circular economy of a juice manufacturer in this autonomous community, aimed at gradually replacing the consumption of natural gas with biogas.

With this purpose, the industrial combustion engineering company will install a boiler at the plant next autumn with a production of 4 tons of steam at 12 bars of pressure and a mixed burner to use gas-biogas as fuel in a variable proportion regulated in an automatic variable way.

Gas-biogas mixed fuel

In this way, Soluciones Integrales de Combustión will implement a burner model JBD 6000 mixed with hot air, from the manufacturer E&M Combustion, capable of using more than one type of fuel, which allows greater flexibility in the use of the boiler, since it makes possible to change the type of fuel according to the user’s needs. JBD burners are equipment with low NOx emissions, prepared to overcome high overpressures in the combustion chamber.

The project is part of an environmental project that plans to increase the consumption of biogas, a renewable gas that the food sector company plans to use preferentially in its production facilities, with the aim of continuing to minimize the consumption of fossil fuels, in this case of natural gas. Likewise, the operation is aimed at ensuring the energy efficiency of the facility and complying with environmental standards.

Sustainable steam solutions

The company in the food sector has an anaerobic digestion plant in its facilities, in charge of purifying the effluents that come from the juice manufacturing process, with which it manages to self-generate biogas. This biogas generated in its manufacturing processes is in fact 100% reused, thus managing to reduce its natural gas consumption by 24% up to now. This positive experience has also allowed it to reduce the consumption of chemical products, as well as improve the quality of discharges into public channels, which leads to more sustainable production.

Soluciones Integrales de Combustión had previously been commissioned to implement an application consisting of a model JBD 11,500 mixed natural gas/biogas boiler burner and a model 20,000 trommel burner also mixed, to operate with biogas and natural gas. The implementation of this equipment has allowed considerable savings in energy costs and obtaining a more sustainable production for the environment.

Soluciones Integrales de Combustion carries out industrial combustion engineering services that comprehensively cover the needs of all types of processes, from design and supply, to installation, maintenance and repair. The solutions proposed by the company add value in areas such as energy saving, sustainability, reliability and the reduction of unnecessary stops at facilities.