Wärtsilä enhances the business of our customers by providing them with lifecycle power solutions. When creating better and environmentally compatible technologies, we focus on the marine and energy markets. We provide ship power solutions and flexible power plants with related services to our customers. Through innovative products and services, we set out to be the most valued business partner of all our customers. This is achieved by the dedication of more than 17,000 professionals manning 160 locations in 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on the Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, Finland.

Wärtsilä is a leading supplier of flexible power plants for the decentralized power generation market. We offer solutions for baseload power generation, grid stability & peaking, industrial self-generation as well as for the oil and gas industry. Technology leadership, a strong and broad product portfolio, high efficiency and fuel flexibility, plus the ability to offer complete turnkey deliveries worldwide puts us in a unique position in the power plants markets.

Speaker Profile
Mr Niklas Haga is a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. He has worked at the Power Plant Technology Department of Wärtsilä since 2002 and currently holds the position of Chief Development Engineer.

Mr Haga’s responsibility include new developments and technologies related to liquid fuel qualities and fuel feed systems. He also acts as technical advisor for sales and delivery projects related to liquid fuels like diesel oil, heavy fuel oil, heavy refinery residuals, crude oils and liquid biofuels.

Liquid biofuels, i.e. vegetable oils as fuel, has been the main area of focus for him since Wärtsilä´s first commercial vegetable oil fired installation in 2003. I have been working with our commercial liquid biofuel power stations in different project stages, from marketing and sales to system design, follow up and system optimization.

JatrophaWorld 2008 Hamburg Speaker
Day 2 – Tuesday, October 21
17:00  USING JATROPHA PLANT OIL – MARKET DEVELOPMENT & TECHNOLOGY OF CHP PLANT

Overview of presentation
• Wärtsilä fuel flexibility and capabilities
• Vegetable oils as diesel power plant fuel
• Characteristics of Jatropha oil and other vegetable oils
• Wärtsilä liquid biofuel power plants
• Typical CHP plant setup
• Special features for vegetable oil operation
• Jatropha oil fired CHP plant (case study)
• References and experience
 
JATROPHAWORLD 2008 is a showcase of all the latest trends and shifts occurring in the Jatropha value chain, bringing together on a single platform, the best expertise to discuss and analyze the present and future dynamics of Jatropha from a technological and socio-economic angle. To find more about JatrophaWorld in Hamburg from October 20 to 21, 2008, please visit http://www.futureenergyevents.com/jatropha/.