April 2016

Our project Renovation and Ecologization of the Heating Plant in Planá nad Lužnicí was granted an award by the Association for the District Heating of the Czech Republic for significant reduction of air pollution.

The life-long work and effort of the General Manager of C-Energy Bohemia, Libor Doležal, in the field of power engineering was acknowledged by the Czech Association of Energy Sector Employers.

The press release from the conference where the awards were granted says:

The objective of the complex renovation project was to build a variable source which would make it possible to concurrently produce electricity and heat from various fuels – specifically from (i) natural gas in cogeneration units of gas motors (output 4 x 9,17 MWe) and in a renovated spare gas boiler (ii) brown coal in new grate-type boilers with fluid technology features (output 2 x 32.9 MWt). The newly installed equipment has significantly increased the efficiency of the plant and significantly decreased the amount of air polluting emissions. Flue gas from coal boilers is cleaned in a new desulphurization unit. Flue gas from gas boilers is cleaned by means of a modern catalytic method.  As far as the total production of emissions is concerned – all of them have been reduced significantly: SO2 by 86%, NOx by 60% and dust nuisance by 59%.