Stora Enso Skoghall BM8, Sweden Vacuum System Rebuild Fulfills The Energy Saving Target

Totally 7 liquid ring pumps were stopped and replaced by one Runtech Turbo blower and two EP blowers

Stora Enso Skoghall BM8, Sweden vacuum system rebuild fulfills the energy saving target. Totally 7 liquid ring pumps were stopped and replaced by one Runtech Turbo blower and two EP blowers. Power saving in the vacuum system is over 2 000 kW so annually 16,6 GWh. Customer reports also significant savings in water consumption and maintenance costs.

Stora Enso Skoghall BM8 is the biggest primary fibre board machine in Europe, with the width of 8.1 m and annual capacity of 450,000 ton.

Runtech Systems is a global provider of engineered systems tailored to the pulp and paper industries. Runtech works with customers to better understand and control their operational conditions to maximize efficiency and cost effectiveness. Our main target is to bring notable energy savings and highly improved process efficiency for board, tissue and paper mills.

Runtech's patented solutions include energy efficient vacuum system and heat recovery optimization, runnability optimization, dewatering, doctoring and cleanliness optimization as well as ropeless tail threading, including related services, spare parts and paper machine audits and consulting.