The Hawesville Mill - Department for Energy Development and ...
The Hawesville Mill - Department for Energy Development and ...
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hawesville</strong> <strong>Mill</strong><br />
• At start-up in 1969<br />
• 220 tons per day of kraft hardwood<br />
• Bleached market pulp<br />
• Today<br />
• 1350 tons per day of kraft hardwood<br />
• Elemental chlorine free bleached pulp<br />
• Steam is produced from burning of spent pulping<br />
liquor <strong>and</strong> woody biomass<br />
• Installed an electrical generator in 1997<br />
• Producing 45 megawatts (enough to power 32,000 Kentucky homes)<br />
• Currently rebuilding the turbine<br />
• Will gain another 6-8 MW<br />
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