Belarus to increase peat shipments for cement mill operations

Peat industry enterprises intend to increase shipments of peat fuel to Belarusian cement mills by 20 per cent in 2023, the Energy Ministry told BelTA. The volumes of deliveries of peat briquettes and dried milled peat in 2023 were agreed as a result of a working conference at premises of the Belarusian fuel and gasification industrial group Beltopgaz. 

Plans were made to increase peat fuel shipments to Belarusian cement mills by 20 per cent to 435,000t in 2023. Cement industry enterprises will get 313,000t of peat briquettes and 122,000t of dried milled peat. The volumes may be increased further if necessary.

According to the Energy Ministry, at present about 40 per cent of the fuel briquettes and 100 per cent of the dried milled peat made by peat enterprises are shipped to Belarusian cement mills. Peat allows substituting imported natural gas and hard coal. Work to increase the share of peat in the country's fuel and energy balance as much as possible will continue. New projects to switch boiler houses of the Lyuban construction materials factory and the Smorgonsilikatobeton branch of OAO Krasnoselskstroymaterialy to peat fuel are in the pipeline, reports Belta.