The MLTC Bioenergy Centre is a combined heat and power, carbon-neutral, energy system consisting of a 6.6 MW (net) power generation system while also providing process heat for kiln-drying NorSask’s lumber. The facility is fueled by residual woody biomass generated by the NorSask sawmill. The carbon-neutral plant is capable of producing 55,000 mw-hrs per year to the SaskPower grid – enough to power 5,000 homes.

The Design, Engineering, Detailing, Fabrication, Painting, Delivery and Supervision of Installation: Scopes:

• (1)Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Steel Buildings with turbo-generators and all associated fuel handling and environmental emission systems
• (2) Thermal oil heating plant mounted Air-cooled, refractory-lined, reciprocating grate furnace with thermal oil radiant heat exchangers 
• (3) Exhaust Steam Air Cooled Condenser (ACC) structures
• (4) Wood Pellet Waste Piling Storage Shed Building
• (5) Biomass Wood pellet waste fuel Storage Bin (3-Day Capacity to cover the period of weekend holiday)
• (6) Fuel Infeed/Outlead Pipe Belt Conveyors and their stack tower and transfer towers (including their related staircase towers)
• (7) Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) Building and facilities 
• (8) Planermill Shavings Cyclone Tower equipped with Metering Bin, Ehouse, Rawlings grinder, Feed conveyor, infeed conveyor,etc
• (9) Pump Skid, piping skids, emergency cooler skid;
• (10) Recirculated flue gas ductwork,  diversion duct work, thermal insulated Expansion tanks(with shot peen system), combustion chamber houses and casings;
• (11) Gravity take-up transportation system steel works
• (12) Cable trays and frameworks 
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The installation involves one air-cooled, refractory-lined, reciprocating grate furnace with thermal oil heat exchangers, a 6.6 MW Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbo-generator and all associated fuel handling and environmental emission systems. The bioenergy plant achieves significant environmental benefits by reducing the carbon intensity of the SaskPower grid, reducing the use of natural gas for industrial process heating and completely eliminates adverse particulate matter in air emissions. The bioenergy plant enhances the economic outcomes of the nine Indigenous communities associated with the Meadow Lake Tribal Council through improved operations of Canada’s only 100% Indigenous-owned sawmill by converting a waste stream into valuable energy. The ultimate recipients of the ongoing long term benefits of the bioenergy centre are the Indigenous youth and families of the Meadow Lake Tribal Council located in northwest Saskatchewan.

The photos of the products of site construction and erections: