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The “Star Project” by Bracell Uses the Best Technologies Available in the Market for the Pulp Sector, Using All This Availability in the New Factory in Lençóis Paulista
Having started operations at the end of 2021, the Star Project’s main characteristic is its high capacity for technology, using the best technology available for the pulp sector. The company’s new factory located in Lençóis Paulista was designed with the aim of expanding its production capacity from 250 thousand tons/year of kraft pulp to 1.5 million tons/year of dissolving pulp or up to 3 million tons/year of kraft pulp.
The Bracell project represents the largest private investment in technology in the State of São Paulo in the last 20 years, with the expansion of the new factory featuring the latest technologies aimed at a next-generation pulp factory and not using fossil fuels. In addition to all these components, the factory is self-sufficient in energy, with its surplus supplying the National Interconnected System with clean and high-quality energy. Furthermore, the unit has two flexible lines primarily designed to produce dissolving pulp.
After the expansion is completed, the operational phase will employ about 6,650 workers, both direct and outsourced, permanently in industrial, forestry, and logistics activities.
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Factory Assembly
For the development of the electromechanical assembly of the factory, responsible for the interconnection of processes, known as BOP (Balance Of Plant), Bracell hired the consulting firm Poyry from Finland.
The agreement between the two, as well as in the LD, was in the EPCM modality, which includes the interconnections between all process areas, the turbo generators, and steam distribution systems, the water cooling central, and other supplementary systems.
More About Technology: China Tests Groundbreaking Energy Storage Technology Using the World’s Largest Flow Battery
Last week, China connected the world’s most powerful and energy-storing flow battery to its power grid. The flow battery, called Dalian, has a capacity of 100 MW, which will be used to smooth out the peaks and valleys of renewable energy generation, providing electricity at a steady level even when the wind is not turning the turbines or at night when solar panels are generating energy.
The flow battery project was developed by the group of Professor Xianfeng Li from the Dalian Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the system was created and integrated by Rongke Power Co.
The phase that was inaugurated now by scientists is just the first stage, for demonstration of chemical energy storage on a large scale. The complete project is expected to reach 200 Megawatts or 800 megawatt-hours of electricity.
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