Valmet Evaporation Solutions

Excellent results - this is what Valmet's evaporation and condensate treatment plants deliver in pulp and paper mills all over the world. Our goal is to keep your mill working at its optimum.

High reliability is built into Valmet's evaporation plants. We have experience from more than 400 installations.

Avoid plugging and bridging with Valmet's engineered solutions for high availability.

Long lifetime! Valmet's evaporators are built with tubes - mechanically strong elements that give the equipment a very long lifetime.

Cutting-edge evaporation technology

Plugging and bridging can lower the efficiency and capacity of the evaporation plant. Valmet has engineered solutions that enable high performance.

Our innovative Evaporation Solutions have been used in more than 400 evaporation and condensate treatment plant projects around the world. We can offer a tailored solution when you want to improve your evaporation.

Reliable and energy efficient

The reliability is built into our evaporation deliveries.

And we have designs for minimized energy consumption through energy integration with other mill processes. Surplus steam can be used in other mill processes, or to produce electricity.

Long lifetime

Valmet's evaporators are known to have a very long service life.

The heating surface in Valmet's evaporators are made of tubes, which gives excellent durability. Valmet's evaporators withstand design pressure and temperature for a very long time.

Maximum reuse of condensates

Save fresh water through maximised use of mill condensates.

Valmet’s condensate treatment systems produce clean condensates in the right amounts and qualities to match the mill’s needs.

High capacity and availability

Scaling and bridging are problems that can radically decrease evaporation performance and lead to lost production.

Valmet’s Tubel evaporator is a superb solution in applications where the risk of scaling is high. In a Tubel evaporator, liquor is evaporated on the outside of tubes. The rounded surface and the wide distance between the tubes gives the Tubel evaporators very high availability.

More energy from the recovery boiler

Higher liquor dry solids enable higher production of steam in the recovery boiler. Valmet’s Super Concentration system with Internal Liquor Heat Treatment is a reliable and value-adding concept for pulp mills.

Our Technologies

Tubel Evaporators

Valmet’s well-proven Tubel design has been shown to provide greater availability in high dry solids or scaling applications.

Valmet Tube Evaporator

Our tubular falling film evaporator is well proven and mechanically reliable. It provides a smaller footprint and excellent condensate segregation.

Valmet Vapor Recycling

Valmet’s Vapor Recycling can help save high pressure steam. The innovative vapor recycling concept makes it possible to evaporate to high dry solids using only LP steam. High pressure steam can be saved for other uses in the mill.

Valmet MVR Evaporators

MVR (Mechanical Vapor Recompression) is a good way to improve the mill’s overall steam economy and condensate segregation. Valmet’s MVR evaporators are optimized for minimum fan power, which lowers the operating cost.

High-performance condensate handling

Valmet Evaporation plants can be designed to produce condensates that can be completely reused in the mill. This greatly reduces the mill’s consumption of fresh water.

Success in evaporation

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Field services for evaporation plants

To get the most out of a maintenance shutdown, the evaporation plant should be regularly examined. Valmet’s evaporation inspections, audits and maintenance shutdown activites covers the plant safety, mechanics and the process. Any findings that require an immediate maintenance measure will be communicated directly to the customer. Our target is to help customers ensures high availability, performance and stable operations.

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Our expertise is at your service

Our focus is to bring your performance forward. Get in touch with our evaporation experts through your local Valmet office, or the link below.