Products and services

Our products and services include

- Fluidized bed boilers 
- Atmospheric CFB gasifiers 
- Waste heat boilers for metallurgical applications 
- Pulverized coal boilers 
- Boiler maintenance and service

Our main product, CFB boiler, is a clean-coal platform with a unique low temperature combustion process that cleanly and efficiently burns both traditional fuels and carbon-neutral fuels; typical fuels can include biomass, waste coals, tires and processed waste materials. The CFB’s unique multi-fuel capability can utilize opportunity and carbon-neutral fuels to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in relation to conventional pulverized-coal boilers while improving the economics of power generation.

Unlike conventional steam generators that burn the fuel in a large high-temperature flame, CFB technology does not have burners or a flame within its furnace. The CFB uses fluidization technology to mix and circulate fuel particles with limestone as they burn in a low temperature combustion process. The limestone captures the sulfur oxides as they are formed, while the low burning temperature minimizes the formation of nitrogen oxides. The fuel and limestone particles are recycled over and over back to the process, which results in high efficiency for burning the fuel, capturing pollutants, and for transferring the fuel’s heat energy into high-quality steam to produce power.

CFBs are suitable for new power plants as well as the refurbishment of older power plants and often do not require secondary emission control systems. Integration of supercritical once-through boiler technology with CFB technology provides the best combination of features for efficient, cost-effective and environmentally responsible power production.

Foster Wheeler -designed CFBs have been installed in more than 350 industrial and utility applications around the world, with steadily increasing gains in unit capacity. The company is currently offering even larger (600 MWe and 800 MWe) versions of the CFB.