The forest industry company Oy Metsä-Botnia Ab was the first in the world to implement a uniform group-level flue gas emission monitoring and reporting solution for pulp production. Metso provided the monitoring and reporting solution for the company’s Botnia pulp mill group, based on the metsoDNAinformation system platform.

Metso’s emission monitoring and reporting applications are widely used in other large combustion plants and Botnia Group’s reporting system is based on these practices, and on mill-specific environmental permits and EU directives and standards. The set-up was specially tailored for pulp production. The applications can either be an integrated part of Metso´s own metsoDNA CR automation platform or a stand-alone solution.

Each Botnia mill has its own data collection server, where emission data is collected and processed. Mill servers are connected to the main server at the Äänekoski mill in Finland. This arrangement enables any Botnia mill to review and compare their operation with the results of another mill via a web-based browser display.

The experience so far shows that the set-up makes it possible to respond quickly to any problems the mill might have and to benchmark operations against other Botnia mills. The solution enables uniform monitoring and reporting online, as well as short- and long-term emission reporting within the Botnia Group and to the authorities. Furthermore, it even enables proactive emission management and forecasting.

Energy efficiency is also considered crucial and therefore Botnia is planning to connect the monitoring of the current mill-specific measurement systems to the same common portal. This would offer the same advantages for group-wide energy efficiency monitoring and reporting.

For further information, please contact: Tiina Stenvik, Product Manager, Automation business line,
tel. +358 20 483 8013