Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 60 No. 3 (2023)   Energy Systems
    Technical Papers

    Initiatives Biomass Combustion Technology for Steam Power Plants to Achieve Carbon Neutrality

    KAZUTOSHI AIYOSHIZAWA
    MASAYUKI KATO
    SHOTA KAMIGUCHI
    TOSHIHIRO KAWAKAMI
    YUYA UEDA
    YUKI KONDO

    For achieving carbon neutrality, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has accumulated experience in biomass co-firing and 100% biomass firing for pulverized coal-fired steam power plants of various types and output ranges in Japan as well as overseas. As the latest example, large (1,000-MW-class) ultra-supercritical steam power plants in which pulverized coal is fired have started biomass co-firing operation at the ratio of 10% or more (calorie basis).