Brunata provides district heating with wood chips

In 2005 Brunata inherited the project plan of a biofuel district heating plant in Razlog, Bulgaria from DEPA - the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. The aim was to build a biofuel plant using wooden chips and a percentage of lignin – a kind of wood waste dumped in big amounts near the city by a previous yeast factory.

Utilising waste products to eliminate environmental impact
The purpose of the DEPA project was to find a way to utilise the waste and to eliminate its environmental impact. Because of some property issues the project was about to fail. However, Brunata decided to enter, modified the business plan and after some negotiations with the municipality, Brunata built the plant. The supplier of the boiler - a turn-key unit - is the Danish company Justesen Energiteknik a/s.

Brunata's contribution helps improve comfort in hospital rooms
Our customer is the municipality hospital of Razlog. Today the expenditures for heating and warm water are less than half of what they used to be, when the heating was produced by oil. The hospital enjoys better comfort in the rooms and refuses to change to natural gas despite of an extremely low price offered by our competitors. The reason might also be that Brunata donated 15,000 euro for the rehabilitation of the internal heating installation of the hospital and for renovation of the premises of the laboratory, when we started to build the plant.