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ALSTOM - Booth #500
ALSTOM, through Bechtel, was awarded the fabric filters, wet limestone FGD and wet precipitators for the two 600 MW Elm Road (Oak Creek) coal-fired generators. Since fabric filters are the most efficient particulate removal option, wet FGD is the most efficient SO2 removal option and wet precipitators are the most efficient option for SO3 reduction, this system will be a model for the industry in the future.
Here are recent wet limestone orders for ALSTOM.
Wet |
ALSTOM |
American Electric Power |
Mountaineer |
1 |
WV |
limestone |
1300 |
2008 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
Belews Creek |
1 |
NC |
limestone |
1080 |
2008 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
Belews Creek |
2 |
NC |
limestone |
1080 |
2008 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
Cliffside |
5 |
NC |
limestone |
571 |
2009 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
G G Allen |
5 |
NC |
limestone |
275 |
2009 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
G G Allen |
4 |
NC |
limestone |
275 |
2009 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
G G Allen |
3 |
NC |
limestone |
275 |
2009 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
G G Allen |
2 |
NC |
limestone |
165 |
2009 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
G G Allen |
1 |
NC |
limestone |
165 |
2009 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
Marshall |
1 |
NC |
limestone |
350 |
2007 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
Marshall |
3 |
NC |
limestone |
648 |
2006 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
Marshall |
4 |
NC |
limestone |
648 |
2006 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
Marshall |
2 |
NC |
limestone |
350 |
2007 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
W S Lee |
1 |
SC |
limestone |
90 |
2012 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
W S Lee |
2 |
SC |
limestone |
90 |
2012 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Duke Energy |
W S Lee |
3 |
SC |
limestone |
175 |
2010 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Transalta Corp. |
Centralia |
BW22 |
WA |
limestone |
665 |
2002 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
Transalta Corp. |
Centralia |
BW21 |
WA |
limestone |
665 |
2002 |
Wet |
ALSTOM |
We Energies |
Oak Creek (Elm Road) |
1 |
WI |
limestone |
600 |
2009 |
The $470 million 250 MW CFB Great Falls power project is planned by the Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative. ALSTOM was chosen to build the plant's boiler. Tim Gregori, the generating coop's general manager, said ash from the plant may be reused in road-building materials or even particle board. He also said lined ponds will be built and consistently monitored. The city of Great Falls and five electric cooperatives are joining together to build this plant.
Babcock Power Environmental Inc. – Booth #218
Babcock Power Environmental Inc. (BPE), along with its affiliate Riley Power Inc., (together referred to as Babcock Power) provide fully integrated environmental solutions for utility power plants, waste-to-energy facilities, and large industrial applications. BPE has recently received a contract for the design, supply, and erection of a Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization System (WFGD) from Santee Cooper, a state-owned utility headquartered in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, for their new coal-fired Unit 3 at Cross Station. The design SO2 removal efficiency is 95 percent. The contract will be completed in 2007.
The contract includes the design and supply of a single WFGD absorber tower utilizing bi-directional spray levels, two mist eliminator levels and an integral gypsum reaction sump. The absorber tower is a concrete structure with an acid brick lining. This material was selected as the preferred method of addressing the high chloride levels anticipated (50,000 PPM) in the limestone slurry media. The design is one absorber tower for the Unit without a bypass. Santee Cooper selected this arrangement to provide the required reliability.
BPEI is responsible for coordinating the supply and erection of all equipment from BPEI shops and numerous suppliers, including the absorber tower from Stebbins Engineering. The proposed construction plan takes into consideration all of the key elements of space, schedule, and equipment usage for this plant.
U.S. FGD installations include
process |
supplier |
utility name |
plant name |
unit id |
state |
reagent |
size MW |
startup |
Wet |
Babcock Power |
Santee Cooper |
Cross |
4 |
SC |
limestone |
600 |
2007 |
Wet |
Babcock Power |
Santee Cooper |
Cross |
3 |
SC |
limestone |
600 |
2007 |
Wet |
Environeering, Riley |
PNG Corporation |
R D Morrow |
2 |
MS |
limestone |
200 |
1979 |
Wet |
Environeering, Riley |
PNG Corporation |
R D Morrow |
1 |
MS |
limestone |
200 |
1978 |
Wet |
Riley |
Ameren CIPS |
Duck Creek |
1 |
IL |
limestone |
416 |
1978 |
Wet |
Riley |
Vectren |
F B Culley |
3 |
IN |
limestone |
265.2 |
1994 |
Wet |
Riley |
Vectren |
F B Culley |
2 |
IN |
limestone |
103.7 |
1995 |
Total MW: 2384.9
Bechtel Power – Booth #206
Bechtel is a global engineering, construction and project management company with more than a century of experience on complex projects in challenging locations.
Privately owned with headquarters in San Francisco, Bechtel has 40 offices around the world and 40,000 employees. Bechtel had revenues of $17.4 billion in 2004 and has been the No. 1 ranked U.S. contractor seven years running.
Bechtel, Cinergy/PSI, and General Electric Company have signed a letter of intent to study the feasibility of constructing a commercial, integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) generating station. This is the first plant of its kind announced under a recently proposed GE-Bechtel alliance.
PSI Energy, the Indiana operating company of Cinergy Corp., would own and operate the facility. Cinergy/PSI is considering several sites, including the site of its coal-fired station in Edwardsport, IN. The plant would produce 500 to 600 MW of electricity to help meet increased electrical demand over the next decade. The letter of intent is the first step toward reaching a contract to design and construct the plant. Earlier this month, GE and Bechtel announced their intent to develop a standard commercial offering for integrated gasification combined cycle projects in the United States.
Bechtel completed the first foreign-owned power plant in China, with an exceptional record of safety and diversity. The 724 MW, coal-fired Meizhou Wan project also was Bechtel's first lump-sum turnkey job in that country.
ALSTOM, through Bechtel, was awarded the fabric filters, wet limestone FGD and wet precipitators for the two 600 MW Elm Road (Oak Creek) coal-fired generators. Since fabric filters are the most efficient particulate removal option, wet FGD is the most efficient SO2 removal option and wet precipitators are the most efficient option for SO3 reduction, this system will be a model for the industry in the future.
Black & Veatch – Booth #415
Black & Veatch claims more megawatts of Power Generation engineering than any other company. Black & Veatch Corporation is a global engineering, consulting and construction company specializing in infrastructure development in the fields of energy, water and information. It says that it is involved with more megawatts of power generation than any other company.
Founded in 1915, Black & Veatch serves its clients with conceptual and preliminary engineering services, engineering design, procurement, construction, financial management, asset management, information technology, environmental, security design and consulting, and management consulting services. The employee-owned company has more than 90 offices worldwide. Black & Veatch is ranked on the Forbes “500 Largest Private Companies in the U.S.” listing for 2004.
Dayton Power & Light (DP&L) and Black & Veatch Corporation have formed an alliance to execute the next series of DP&L air quality improvement projects. These projects will remove sulfur dioxide and oxides of mercury at DP&L’s Killen and Stuart coal-fired generating stations, which consist of five nominal 600 MW units. The new air quality systems will go into operation at the five units between mid-2007 and mid-2009. The air quality projects will utilize the CT-121 scrubber technology licensed by Black & Veatch from Chiyoda.
The Omaha Public Power District Board of Directors has authorized management to proceed toward executing a contract with the Nebraska City Power Partners that will lead to the construction of a 663 MW coal-fired power plant located near Nebraska City, Nebraska. Nebraska City Power Partners is a consortium of contractors that includes Black & Veatch, Gilbert Industrial Corporation and Zachary Construction. Construction is expected to begin in September, and commercial operations are to commence in 2009.
Burns & McDonnell – Booth #319
Seminole Electric Cooperative has selected Burns & McDonnell to design the $1.2 billion, coal-fueled 750 MW Seminole 3. In addition to detailed design service, Burns & McDonnell will provide construction field services. Construction is expected to start in October 2008, with completion in May 2012.
Westar Energy, Inc. has chosen Burns & McDonnell to perform site studies for the company’s future generation units. Westar Energy’s goal is to have new generation available by 2008 to meet the customers’ increasing demands. The company first plans to add peaking units of 50 to 150 MW. Westar Energy will also evaluate site for a future coal-fueled power plant. Westar expects the site evaluation phase to be complete by the end of 2005.
More than 25 years of FGD system studies and design have given Burns & McDonnell a familiarity with key FGD suppliers and processes which leads to efficient and economical operations for new units or retrofit/rebuild projects. Burns & McDonnell also performs system evaluations to improve removal efficiency and reduce operating and maintenance costs. The source testing group, established in 1970 for utility stack testing projects, now provides a wide range of services for industries and utilities. Engineers, scientists, and technicians develop plans, schedule required tests, and provide test data that meet all regulatory requirements. Burns & McDonnell's test crews have performed thousands of tests for hundreds of utility and industrial clients.
Burns & McDonnell recently completed a study for future reduction of particulate, sulfur oxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions from multiple coal-fired boilers. As part of the study, 39 processes were evaluated on the basis of technical merit, cost, and synergy of control for multiple emissions (particulate, SOx, and NOx). The processes investigated included proven commercially available processes, demonstration scale processes, and pilot scale research and development processes.
Burns & McDonnell recently completed a major flue gas desulfurization (FGD) retrofit project for the Municipal Power & Light Department in Henderson, Kentucky. Station Two is a coal-fired electric generating station consisting of two coal-fired generating units with a combined capacity of 337 MW. The FGD systems were installed as part of the utility's compliance plan to meet the Phase 1 sulfur dioxide reduction requirements of Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. Each FGD system is a magnesium-promoted wet lime process with a single stainless steel absorber module for each generating unit. A new chimney with two liners was constructed to exhaust the wet flue gas from the absorber modules. These FGD systems were two of the lowest cost (in $/kW) of all FGD systems recently constructed in the U.S. and the project was completed under budget and on schedule.
This experience is significant in the view of the McIlvaine Company. The reason is that the cost of wet limestone scrubbing has risen significantly. Utilities therefore need to take a closer look at lime scrubbing instead of automatically selecting wet limestone.
Bryan Hansen of Burns & McDonnell is giving a speech on minimizing FGD costs in the 3:30-5:00 time slot on August 17. He will be in the Burns & McDonnell Booth #319 before the speech at 12-3:30 pm and after the speech at 5:30 pm he will return to answer questions and participate in an interview with Bob McIlvaine.
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
Sales Region | Booth Schedule |
|
Mobile |
Bryan Hansen | Sr. Mechanical Engineer | Wed. afternoon | bhansen@burnsmcd.com | ||
Doug Riedel |
VP, Sales & Marketing |
various | 816-813-1021 | ||
Grant Grothen | AQCS Bus. Development Manager | all | various | ggrothen@burnsmcd.com | 913-219-2844 |
Doug Hammontree | Client Manager | various | various | dhammon@burnsmcd.com | 816-803-8044 |
Burns and Roe – Booth #423
Burns and Roe has completed projects for over 170 fossil-fueled generating units totaling over 70,000 MW, the majority of which were at new facilities or expansions for major utility companies.
Council Bluffs is home to one of MidAmerican Energy’s largest coal-fired generating stations. Their new 790 MW coal-fired facility, located in Iowa, brings the total capacity to almost 1,600 MW. Burns and Roe was selected by Hitachi America, Ltd. (the EPC Contractor) to provide construction management, supervision, and coordinated execution of all of the construction activities on-site and the coordination of all off-site activities for the new facility.
Clean Air Engineering – Booth #330
Clean Air Engineering provides stack testing and analysis. Clean Air Engineering has been in the stack testing business since 1972. One of its strengths is the knowledge about air pollution control system performance which allows it to accurately provide performance testing of scrubbers or other devices. Clean Air performs the full spectrum of testing services to all types of industries, worldwide. These services include:
Measuring PM2.5 is
one of the challenges for stack testers. Clean Air has the following
observations. “At the present time, there is no USEPA promulgated or proposed
reference method for measuring PM2.5. Nor is there a generally
recognized "off-the-shelf" procedure that has gone through enough industry
evaluation to be considered validated. One of the chief problems with PM2.5
measurement is the fact that PM2.5 is believed to be composed
predominantly of aerosols and other non-solid chemical species that are not
necessarily a particulate at stack conditions of temperature and pressure.
There are two lines of approach currently being pursued for PM2.5
measurements. One approach is to use an adaptation of Method 201A and
incorporate a second cyclone to differentiate between PM10 and PM2.5.
This approach has been evaluated by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and is
described in detail in the 1996 PCA R&D Publication No. 2081. The limitation of
this approach is the fact that, as mentioned above, most of the PM2.5
may not be in solid form and thus would not be collected using this method.
A second approach is being evaluated that tries to address the issues of aerosol
particulate and atmospheric formation of PM2.5. This approach
involves extracting the stack gas and allowing it to slowly cool in a settling
chamber. This emulates what may actually happen as the stack gas exits to the
atmosphere. The cooled gases are then sampled using an approach similar to the
PCA modified 201A method. This approach is still at the research stage and is
not available for commercial applications.
It is possible that valuable information concerning PM2.5 could be
gained by collecting particulate using Method 5 and determining the particle
size distribution microscopically. This would provide an estimate at least of
the solid portion of the PM2.5. In this case, Method 202 should be
incorporated to determine the CPM. However, the fraction of the CPM that may be
attributable to PM2.5 cannot be determined.”
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
Region | Booth Schedule |
|
Mobile |
Eric Rodriquez |
Project Manager |
all day | 713-412-5669 | ||
John Connell | Regional Sales Manager | Midwest | all day | jconnell@cleanair.com | 773-575-3729 |
Jim R. Wright | Regional Sales Manager | Houston Area | all day | jrwright@cleanair.com | 713-825-3438 |
Brent Berridge | Source Group Technical Leader | National | all day | bberridge@cleanair.com | 713-829-0320 |
Clyde Bergemann – Booth #240
Buildup on the gas-to-gas heat exchangers can be a problem. Ian Carruthers of Clyde Bergemann joined the networking discussions at Power-Gen Europe and explained that their Jet Blower™ was used to keep these units clean at Power-Gen Europe. Gas-to-gas heat exchangers have several roles in FGD. One is to reheat gases to avoid the steam plume. This is required in some countries. Another is to reduce the gas temperature entering the precipitator in order to improve SO3 and particulate capture in the system. A third may be to ensure that sulfuric acid mist does not deposit locally.
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Mobile |
Bill Rafferty |
Marketing Manager |
814-434-8840 | ||
Sandeep Shah | Controls Manager | sandeep@clydebergmann.com | 678-429-9072 |
Columbian Tectank – Booth #439
Columbian TecTank™ was formed in 2001 by the merger of Columbian Steel Tank and Peabody TecTank. Columbian TecTank™ Company manufacturers bolted tanks and shop-welded tanks in coated carbon steel, aluminum and stainless steel. It has plants in Kansas City and Parsons, Kansas and in Winchester, Tennessee. The company furnished the first scrubber vessel to be installed in a utility. In 1968 it provided the scrubber vessels to Environeering for the 125 MW Union Electric Merrimac limestone scrubber. The system was provided by Combustion Engineering. Its main involvement in FGD today is the supply of dry solids and liquid storage tanks.
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. – Booth #512
Doosan builds complete turnkey coal-fired power plants including air pollution control. It also supplies distributed control systems for FGD systems including a system for the Yosu 1 FGD plant.
Doosan is the largest supplier of wet limestone systems in Korea with 5 FGD systems incorporating 11 absorbers. The company is the licensee of Marsulex. The spray tower design uses internal shells to reduce the L/G. List of installations is as follows: Taegu Dalsu FGD 3 absorbers, Yosu #1, 2 - 2 absorbers (200 MW, 300 MW), Taean #5, 6 - 2, absorbers (500 MW x 2), YoungHung #1, 2 - 2 absorber (800 MW x 2), #7, 8 - 2 absorber (500 MW x 2)
Doosan signed a 435 billion Won EPC contract with Korea Southern Power to supply and install boilers, turbine generators, and other main equipment to the 1,000 MW (2 x 500 MW) coal-fired Hadong Thermal Power Plant Units 7 & 8, to be built next to units 1 through 6 in Gadeok-ri, Geumseong-myeon, Hadong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do. According to the contract, Doosan is to design, manufacture, install, and test the boilers and turbine generators by March 2009. Song Eun Hong, Executive Vice President of Doosan and head of the Thermal Power Plant BG, said “Both Korean and foreign power plant companies were very interested in the project since it was to be carried out through Island EPC contracts, but Doosan became the primary contractor after a comprehensive evaluation in terms of price and capabilities.” (Island EPC contracts means there are different contracts for boiler and turbine generators.)
Doosan is continuing to develop Wet FGD systems. Computer analysis of absorption tower and FGD duct flow is done to achieve
Doosan has a miniature adsorber tower and flow test rig for
Doosan will complete construction in 2007 of the FGD systems for the Taean 7 & 8 coal-fired power plants. These are each 500 MW. In 2004 Doosan completed FGD projects for YongHung 1 & 2. Each is 800 MW and was fitted with a single absorber. These systems in Korea are forced oxidation with commercial grade gypsum production. Reheat of the flue gas is accomplished with a gas-to-gas heat exchanger.
Doosan has a license from Marsulex which expires in 2011. Doosan has its own design of absorber shelf to improve liquid distribution. The new Taean units will be guaranteed for 93 percent efficiency. Dust removal through the scrubber is guaranteed at 50 percent with 40 mg/Sm3 at the inlet and 20 mg/Sm3 at the FGD outlet.
Ducon Technologies, Inc. – Booth #606
Ducon Technologies has announced that one of its group companies, Environeering Environmental Co., will supply its advanced limestone FGD technology for four 300 MW boilers of Zhanjiang Power Co.'s coal-fired power plant in China. Ducon's limestone/gypsum FGD technology includes a proprietary Ventri-Rod design, lower liquid to gas ratios, lower power consumption and high SO2 removal efficiency.
Ducon Technologies Inc. will supply its seawater FGD technology for a 500 MW heavy fuel oil-fired power plant in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Ducon, along with its partner Saudi Archirodon Co., will provide a turnkey installation that will also include dry electrostatic precipitators, flyash conveying and utilization system, and stack refurbishing. This is a zero discharge system. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2006.
Emerson Process Management – Booth #455
Emerson estimates their potential sales for each new coal-fired plant as follows:
Product |
Revenue |
Measurement |
1 |
Valves |
2-4 |
Control systems |
2-4 |
Asset Optimization |
0.5-1 |
Analytical |
0.5 |
Factory automation |
1-2 |
Services |
2-3 |
Integrating digital bus-based technology into the design of a wet scrubber can reduce total project cost by approximately $3.9 million, according to Emerson Power and Water. This represents a five percent savings in total construction costs compared with the same project implemented using a traditional hardwired I/O approach.
Emerson Process Management has installed its SmartProcess® Fleet Emissions Optimizer module to optimize SO2 emissions at three Xcel Energy Denver-area power generation facilities.
Emerson supplies pH control instrumentation to cope with the abrasive and scaling tendencies of FGD slurries. The following individuals from Emerson will be on the stand with information on the pH control experience in power plant FGD systems.
Emerson Process Management has won a contract to upgrade the combustion and turbine control systems at PPL Generation LLC’s 1,473 MW Brunner Island (PA) plant. The Ovation expert control system from Emerson’s Power & Water Solutions industry center will replace existing WDPF combustion controls at the plant’s three coal-fired units. In addition, Ovation turbine controls will be installed at Unit 1 to upgrade the existing WDPF system and at Unit 2 to replace a mechanical hydraulic system. Ovation is part of the PlantWeb digital plant architecture.
EnviroScrub – Booth #338
EnviroScrub has signed an agreement with Marcegaglia NECCT (“NECCT”) to work together on a $24 million (€19 million) SO2/ NOx /Mercury air pollution control plant to be located at Marcegaglia Energy’s 12 MW municipal waste-fired site in Massafra, Italy.
In testing trials jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory, Minnesota Power, and EnviroScrub Technologies Corporation (EnviroScrub), EnviroScrub’s Pahlman™ Process Multi-Pollutant Control (MPC) Technology removed 99 percent of elemental mercury. The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) of the University of North Dakota conducted the independent third-party validation testing. In addition to measuring industry-leading levels of elemental mercury removal, the test results documented simultaneous removal of up to 94 percent of total mercury, 99 percent of SO2, and 96 percent of NOx.
Ershigs/Belco (Plasticon Fluid Systems) – Booth #356
Ershigs has pioneered many of the key innovations in the use of FRP in corrosion resistant applications over the years. Ershigs offers a full range of products, including storage and process vessels, duct systems, valves, process and effluent piping, large field manufactured vessels, washer and ventilation hoods, stack and chimney liners, scrubbers, and spray header piping and assemblies
For Paradise Unit 2, TVA selected Ershigs’ FRP to replace rubber piping. The new Unit 3 FGD supplied by Mitsubishi/Advatech will also incorporate Ershigs' piping. They now have piping installed or on order for 150 FGD systems around the world. Plasticon is furnishing the scrubber recycle piping for the AEP Mitchell scrubber project through B&W. It is furnishing the mist eliminator piping for the Duke Marshall station through ALSTOM. They also have the scrubber piping for five scrubbers at Dayton Power & Light.
Ershigs has recently completed FRP chimney liners for the WE Energies, Pleasant Prairie and Duke Marshall Stations. In addition, Ershigs has been awarded FRP chimney liners for Dayton Power & Light; AEP Mountaineer, Mitchell, Amos and Cardinal Stations; TVA Bull Run and Allegheny Power Pleasants Station.
For the first time in the history of power generation in the UK reinforced plastics were selected as the material of choice for the two new flue liners on the chimney at Eggborough Power Station. The long term consideration for the design of the liners was firstly the materials ability to withstand the high operating temperatures of the wet flue gases of S02/SO3. Design temperature 150ºC, and the mechanical stress induced in the liner during the daily startup and shutdown of the plant with the resulting temperature cycling.
Each liner being 5.9 m Ø and 180 m high posed additional design considerations
as the liner weight of 86,000 kg precluded supporting from the base due to the
high compressive loads. It was decided to hang the liners from the top of the
concrete windshield and an elaborate series of supports and sliding joints
absorbed the loads and thermal expansion.
The stacks have now been in service for more than two years and during the last annual inspection the laminate was found to be in excellent condition with no signs of any deterioration or corrosion.
Senior Executive Personnel
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Mobile |
Tom Pilcher |
V.P. Sales/Marketing |
Exhibit Hours | 918-625-4160 | |
Chaun Trenary | National Power Marketing Manager | Exhibit Hours | ctrenary@ershigs.com | 602-758-6244 |
FGD Sales Personnel
Name |
Title |
Region | Booth Schedule |
|
Mobile |
Dave Turner |
RSM |
South/Southeast | Exhibit Hours | 832-215-7118 | |
Tom Rhone | RSM | Northwest | Exhibit Hours | trhone@ershigs.com | 360-220-7101 |
Jack Bushmeyer | RSM | Northeast | Exhibit Hours | jbushmeyer@csiproducts.com | 419-356-0290 |
Environmental Systems Corp. (ESC) – Booth #342
ESC is a market leader in data acquisition and reporting systems, covering over 35 percent of sources affected under 40CFR75 and other “cap-and-trade” programs. This is a critical function. If the FGD system is operating perfectly but the DAS is not, then the utility suffers in allowance payments. ESC also supplies complete CEMS systems, PEMS, testing and plant performance improvement services including FGD systems.
Forney Corporation - Booth #527
Forney Corporation manufactures front-end combustion components serving the electric utilities, chemical processing, pulp/paper and cement industries. Since its inception in 1927, Forney has expanded its product line to include igniters, burners, burner management systems, flame detectors, duct burners and CEMS. Forney has over 550 installed CEMs systems worldwide in a variety of applications. Forney Corporation supplies its Vigilant Dilution Extraction System for coal-fired boiler applications.
Foster Wheeler North America Corp. – Booth #418
Foster Wheeler will supply the boiler island for the 30 MW Wilton 10 biomass plant in the UK. SembCorp is building the $114 million plant on Teesside, northeast UK. The plant will burn around 300,000 tonnes of green and recycled wood per year. Fuel will come from a variety of sources, including specially grown energy crops, forestry logs, sawmill chips and recycled timber.
Foster Wheeler has been selected to supply a pulverized coal-fired boiler to Bechtel Power Corporation for the 274 MW Two Elk Generating facility in Wyoming. Work on the project will start immediately and the plant is scheduled for completion in 2008. "Our relationship with Bechtel Power goes back many years with a long history of successfully completed projects. Foster Wheeler is currently supplying a 400 MWe PC boiler to Bechtel Power for a similar project in the United States, and we are delighted with this recent award," said Bernard H. Cherry, president and chief executive officer, Foster Wheeler Global Power Group.
Fru-Con – Booth #207
Fru-Con is one of the largest construction and engineering firms in the U.S. It delivers the complete project solution, from design, through procurement, construction, start-up and even maintenance. Fru-Con has recently been involved in a number of combined cycle plants and for the precipitator contract on an oil- fired boiler in Florida.
GE Energy – Booth #200
GE is involved with many products and services in many of the branches of the FGD Decision Tree. The “Layered Combustion” paper given at Power-Gen Europe is the result of the work of the group which was formerly EER in Irvine, California. They have one of the largest pilot furnace facilities in North America. This capability provides resources to develop optimization systems. These result in increased efficiency and therefore less SO2 per kWh.
The former KVB Enertec group supplies the continuous emission monitors which measure and report the SO2 emissions and are used to maximize reagent utilization.
The former BHA group furnishes bags for dry FGD with a number of options from the fiber to the bag type and even the coatings or laminates. Since FGD systems remove some particulate but are limited by the potential gypsum contamination, it is important to coordinate precipitator upgrades with FGD construction. This group of GE is a leader in precipitator upgrades.
GE Water is now part of GE Infrastructure. In fact GE announced that there are now six major businesses. Dave Calhoun is Vice Chairman of Infrastructure. George Oliver is responsible for GE Water and John Krenicki is responsible for GE Energy. John Rice is now Vice Chairman of Industrial. This includes Fanuc, equipment services and many other groups.
GE water is involved in a number of branches of FGD Decisions. The chemicals needed for separation of the metals from the wastewater along with anti-scalants, defoamers, polymers, etc. are supplied for this application. The equipment group supplies the membrane systems which can be used for selenium removal and other wastewater purification needs.
Hadek Protective Systems, Inc. – Booth #252
The 3 x 700 MW coal-fired
Tanjung Bin power station with seawater FGD uses a 656 foot high reinforced
concrete chimney with three carbon steel flues, lined with the Pennguard Block
Lining System. The lining will protect the flues from sulfuric acid condensate
attack and it will allow the owner to operate the FGD flexibly, in accordance
with the sulfur content of the coal. The lining installation will start
beginning of July 2005. During the installation process, the Pennguard lining
will be applied to 30 feet high carbon steel cans on ground level, before final
erection. The pre-lined cans will be attached to the flue using bolted flange
connections, an economical and time saving method.
RWE npower is currently planning to install seawater FGD to all three units of
Aberthaw power station, a 1,500 MW coal-fired power station in Wales, United
Kingdom. The three FGD systems will include reheat of the treated gas to 60˚C
before it enters the chimney. Once the FGD is in service, the three sectional
brick chimney flues will be exposed to a range of operating conditions, which
could attack the structural integrity of the chimney if the flues were left
unprotected. Aberthaw power station will have frequent startups and shut downs,
which will lead to frequent formation of aggressive acidic condensate. Also, the
chimney must be resistant to full bypass capability and sudden thermal swings
associated with switching from FGD operation to FGD bypass operation (or vice
versa). RWE npower decided to protect the flues with Pennguard linings by
installing the lining over the internal brickwork surfaces. The first of three
flues was lined with Pennguard linings in the summer of 2004. Lining the second
flue is planned for July 2005 and lining the third flue is planned for 2007.
The 4 x 500 MW coal-fired Cottam power station in the United Kingdom will be
fitted with wet limestone FGD on all of its four units. Based on a special
design study by Alden Research Laboratory, the owner, EDF Energy,
decided to modify the existing chimney by removing the ceramic brick lining and
applying the Pennguard Block Lining System directly to the inside of the four
concrete flues. This approach will lead to reduced gas flow velocities and
better control of the condensate film on the flue walls. Pennguard linings are
thermally insulating and as a result, the amount of condensate formed in the
flues of wet stacks can be significantly reduced.
Several owners and their insurers have become concerned about the potential risk of a fire in their FGD chimney, caused by a fire in the FGD unit or by some other external cause. Hadek has completed a technical study, which includes investigations of actual chimney fires, fire exposure tests and computer modeling work. The study shows, that Pennguard linings can protect steel chimney flues against collapse for at least two hours, which would probably exceed the duration of the fire or any other upset event.
Haldor Topsoe, Inc. – Booth #422
The company is a major supplier of catalysts for SCR and has a low conversion SO2/SO3 catalyst. At the Niles plant Haldor Topsoe supplied a catalytic SO2 system. The end product is sulfuric acid. One drawback has been that HCl is not captured. However, with a chloride pre-scrubber mercury and HCl would be captured. In light of the escalating prices of limestone this system should not be overlooked.
Hitachi America Ltd. – Booth #406
Hitachi was awarded the contracts for FGD at six coal-fired thermal power plants, two in Spain and four in Portugal, totaling 2,162 MW in generating capacity. This order followed the previous contract for FGD at a thermal power station in Poland (equivalent to 800 MW) last year. Power plants where FGD will be retrofitted are as follows: Spain - Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico: Abono Thermal Power Plant, Unit No.2 (556 MW), Soto Thermal Power Plant, Unit No.3 (350 MW). Portuguese Republic - Companhia Portuguese de Producao de Electricidade,S.A.: Sines Thermal Power Plant, Unit No.1-4 (314 MW × 4).
Horiba Instruments, Inc. – Booth #539
Horiba Instruments, Inc.
is a leading supplier of continuous emissions
monitoring systems (CEMS), Process and Ambient
gas analyzers. With over
fifty years of experience, the company has installed over 10,000 systems
worldwide.
Horiba's ENDA-4000 Series Continuous Emissions Monitoring (CEM) Systems
have been specifically designed to continuously measure the concentrations
of NOx, SO2, CO, CO2 and O2 in the stack gas from stationary sources at a
low installed cost and reliably with minimum maintenance. This latest
series in Horiba’s long line of ENDA type CEMS (over 10,000 installed
worldwide) uses Horiba technology for gas measurement with
fully-extractive sampling. The ENDA-4000 Series CEMS is a
standardized analysis system that can be housed in a single-bay NEMA-4, 4X
or 12 enclosure, an open rack, an environmentally-controlled shelter, or
transportable case. When combined with Horiba standard sample conditioning
options, this system is a cost-effective solution for compliance
monitoring offering the flexibility required for most applications. The
standard
ENDA-4000 Series system can be combined with a variety of sample probes
and
filter assemblies, a stack gas opacity monitor, stack gas flow monitor,
THC, NH3, HCl and other gas analyzers and a Data Acquisition and Reporting
System (DARS) to completely fulfill any continuous monitoring requirements
under 40 CFR Part 75 or Part 60.
The ENDA-4000 Series CEMS utilize either the advanced XS or XE instrument
to measure up to five gases and to control system functions and operation.
(If an XE instrument is included in the CEMS an “E” is included in the
model designation, i.e. ENDA-E4000.) The XS or XE instruments utilize
Horiba’s patented cross flow modulated non-dispersive infrared
(NDIR) technology for measurement of NO, SO2, CO and CO2.
The analyzers for NO, SO2 and CO are designed to automatically compensate
for the interference of CO2 and H2O in the sample gas by electronically
subtracting their effect from the measured concentration. Horiba’s
patented magnetopneumatic technology is utilized for measurement of O2.
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
|
Phone | Fax |
Bernadette Shahin |
Western Regional Sales Mgr. |
|
949-250-4811, Ext. 184 mobile: 949-466-2968 | 949-250-0924 |
J. David Vojtko |
National Sales Mgr. |
724-457-2424
mobile: 949-466-9878
|
724-457-2344 |
Kiewit/Bibb – Booth #308
TIC – The Industrial Company, Bibb and Associates, Inc. and T.E. Ibberson Company have formed CAIRtech, a joint venture organization for designing and building wet FGD installations on a full-scope, EPC basis with a new twist. Instead of arranging the FGD process equipment horizontally, the CAIRtech solution arranges the equipment vertically within a concrete cylinder. Their cost-saving arrangement houses a spray tower absorber and associated process equipment in a slip-formed concrete structure that also serves as the support structure for the flue gas exhaust stack. The benefits of this arrangement include:
Smaller footprint for space-constrained retrofit sites
Approximately 40 to 70 percent less space
Lower total installed cost
Ease of construction
Significant reductions in lay-down space requirements during construction
Reduced interference with existing plant operations
Fewer modifications to existing facilities (above/below ground)
Reduced reliance on existing structures within the plant simplifies design issues
Shorter schedule
Fewer ancillary structures
Improved access and maintainability
Fewer interconnecting process lines and utilities
Shorter runs of large ductwork
Ability to standardize FGD process layout from project to project.
This concept provides tangible cost, schedule and quality benefits for both retrofit projects and new plant designs. While currently designed to address only desulfurization, the CAIRtech team is also exploring an enhancement to their arrangement that would allow for the incorporation of a wet ESP.
Mike Ross (TIC's Managing Partner for CAIRtech joint venture), Bob Alder, Mike Gregory, and Dave Johnson will be on hand during the Coal-Gen exhibition and will have details on the design. At 11:AM on Thursday there will be a networking discussion at the TIC booth #329 including questions from Bob McIlvaine.
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Phone |
Bob Adler |
VP Engineering Services |
|
913-928-7003 mobile-913-205-5019 |
|
Mike Gregory |
|
|
|
|
Dave Johnson |
|
|
|
KSB – Booth #117
KSB is the second leading supplier of FGD pumps to the U.S. market. However, their share is far lower than Warman's. In the last year they have furnished 30 FGD pumps and 20 oil sand and 20 dredging pumps for a total of 60 to 70 large pumps in the size and configuration needed for FGD. Clients include B&W for the Progress Energy pumps, Suncor and Syncrude for oil sands. They are also furnishing pumps to Asia and have supplied FGD pumps to Kepco in Korea.
Land Instruments International – Booth #256
Land has NOx and SO2 CEMS but also has an instrument for SO3. Land Instruments designs and manufactures monitors and analyzers for industrial infrared temperature measurement, combustion efficiency and environmental pollutant emissions. The FGAII stack gas emissions analyzers use advanced dual sensor technology to measure the levels of up to seven gases in a single compact unit. The gas sampling is provided by the ChillerProbe - Advanced Stack Gas Sampling System.
Land products carry a wide range of approvals from leading certification bodies such as TÜV of Germany; MCerts from the UK Environment Agency; ASTM of the USA and the USA Environment Agency.
Model 440 - continuous analyzer is used for SO3 measurements. It is permanently installed in order to optimize combustion conditions by maintaining the temperature of the flue gas slightly above the acid dewpoint temperature. It can continuously monitor the changes in boiler operation and provide a direct loop input to the boiler's own combustion control system. The direct method measures the acid dewpoint temperature (ADT) from which direct concentrations of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) can be calculated.
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
Jack Carroll |
Regional Sales Manager |
8/17 - 8/18 |
Lurgi Lentjes North America – Booth #429
MG Technologies says that because of its focus on fast-growing markets such as waste incineration and power plants, Lurgi Lentjes (including gas cleaning) managed to raise its earnings before taxes from €0.2 million to €0.9 million in the first quarter ended March 31, 2005. MG Technologies reported a profit in the first quarter of 2005 and its earnings before tax (EBT) of €2.2 million. In the corresponding quarter of last year it had reported a loss of €21.1 million. The main reasons for this turnaround in what is traditionally the weakest quarter of the year were the solid operating performance of the four segments as well as a marked improvement in holding-company and financing costs. "The restructuring of the MG Group is increasingly yielding results. Given our solid operating performance in the first quarter, our targets for the MG Group for 2005 continue to be sales of €4.5 billion and a return on sales of around four percent,” announced Peter Steiner, MG's CFO.
FGD experts, specialists, or senior executive personnel will be at the booth ready to network as follows:
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Milas Ballard |
President |
|
|
Paul Petty |
Director, Technology & Project Engineering |
|
|
S. Michael Dunseith |
Consultant |
|
Mitsubishi Power Systems – Booth #212
Advatech is a joint venture of URS and MHI. Detailed FGD engineering is being accomplished in the URS New Orleans office. Five hundred people are employed at this location. One hundred eighty are presently working on FGD. Ten engineers from Mitsubishi are also on hand. In addition URS has 4,000 people elsewhere. MHI is processing one FGD order every 40 days. Over the last year the list of installations has risen from 157 to 169. An oversight committee including experts and managers is assigned to each project. So experience at TVA and Southern can quickly be transferred to those in a new project.
The Advatech FGD system at Alabama Power's Gorgas plant will be a 1,150 MW unit treating flue gas from Units 8-10. This will be one of the largest single modules in the world.
U.S. FGD Installations by Survivor Company
process |
supplier |
utility name |
plant name |
unit id |
state |
reagent |
size MW |
startup |
Wet |
Advatech |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Bull Run |
1 |
TN |
limestone |
950 |
2009 |
Wet |
Advatech |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Colbert |
5 |
AL |
limestone |
550 |
2007 |
Wet |
Advatech |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Kingston |
9 |
TN |
limestone |
200 |
2008 |
Wet |
Advatech |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Kingston |
7 |
TN |
limestone |
200 |
2008 |
Wet |
Advatech |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Kingston |
6 |
TN |
limestone |
200 |
2008 |
Wet |
Advatech |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Paradise |
3 |
KY |
limestone |
1150 |
2005 |
Wet |
Mitsubishi |
Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative |
Merom |
2 |
IN |
limestone |
490 |
1983 |
Wet |
Mitsubishi |
Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative |
Merom |
1 |
IN |
limestone |
490 |
1983 |
Wet |
Pure Air |
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. |
Bailly |
8 |
IN |
limestone |
421 |
1992 |
Wet |
Pure Air |
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. |
Bailly |
7 |
IN |
limestone |
194 |
1992 |
Wet |
Advatech |
Southern/Alabama Power |
Gorgas |
8-10 |
AL |
|
1150 |
|
Mobotec USA – Booth #219
Mixing created by the ROFA and ROTAMIX systems creates optimal conditions to achieve multi-pollutant reduction by providing ample turbulence and residence time within the specific temperature window. Progress Energy, Mobotec USA, Wiley & Associates, URS, Chemical Lime, Solvay Minerals, and DOE formed a team to examine furnace sorbent injection using limestone and Trona in combination with Mobotec USA’s ROFATM and ROTAMIXTM system installed at Progress Energy Cape Fear 5.
Sorbents at various molar stoichiometries (2:1 and 3:1) were injected into several locations, namely the existing ROFA and ROTAMIX ports. The test durations were two 8-hour periods. The sorbent injection lances projected through the associated ROFA or ROTAMIX box to the furnace. The ROFA system air creates suction on the sorbent injection laces.
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
|
Booth Schedule | Phone | Fax |
Jay S. Crilley |
Director: Sales/Marketing USA |
|
8/17: 12-6 PM 8/18: 10-5 PM |
724-772-0244 mobile: 724-502-0013 | 724-772-0242 |
NeuCo – Booth #518
NeuCo, Inc. has started its Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) project, the first contract awarded by the Department of Energy (DOE) under this presidential initiative. The project entails the design and demonstration of an integrated optimization software system at the Baldwin Energy Complex in Southern Illinois, which is owned and operated by Dynegy Inc. The $19.1 million, four-year project, is to be 55 percent funded by NeuCo and 45 percent funded by the DOE. The integrated optimization software system being deployed by NeuCo includes combustion, soot blowing, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) operations, overall unit thermal performance and plant-wide profit optimization products. This initiative will be the first time an integrated real-time software environment coordinates critical plant sub-systems to optimize a unit's performance goals and coordinates multiple units to optimize a plant's business objectives. The expected benefits include improved operating efficiency and reliability, increased commercial availability and reduced emissions.
Nooter Construction Co. - Booth #522
Involved in all phases of field construction, Nooter Construction utilizes computer technology in the areas of design, engineering, welding, scheduling and planning, cost accounting and tracking, quality and safety.
Parsons E&C – Booth #426
Worley Group Ltd., an Australian oil and gas engineering company, agreed to buy Parsons E&C Corp. for $245 million to expand in power plant engineering and widen the range of countries in which it operates. Worley, which is working with Parsons E&C and its former parent Parsons Corp. in a contract to restore Iraqi oil output, will be renamed WorleyParsons after the acquisition. The combined group will have more than 9,500 employees in 29 countries.
Experience and expertise was developed through designing more than 150 coal-fired units from 25 to 900 MW and stations as large as 2,700 MW that burn all types of coal. 12,500 MW of FGD systems are either completed or currently in progress. Progress Energy is selecting the company to manage its AQC program for planning and implementing SCR systems at three units along with FGD systems at 11 units, totaling approximately 4,500 MW. In addition, WorsleyParsons has air quality programs for other clients to install 15 units of wet FGD systems on existing coal-fired plants.
Pegasus Technologies, Inc. – Booth #604
Under President Bush's 10-year, $2 billion Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI), Pegasus Technologies Inc., in a joint effort with Texas Genco, will demonstrate technology for mercury reduction. Pegasus will demonstrate the capability of sophisticated control processes and advanced sensor technologies to optimize mercury speciation and control from the 890 MW Limestone plant in Jewett, Texas. The project will accomplish this by combusting a blend of Texas lignite and Powder River Basin subbituminous coal. The demonstration could also provide the capability to maximize plant efficiency for electricity production. The Department of Energy will provide $6.1 million in federal funds to support the proposed $12.2 million project.
Dr. Stephen Piche will be on hand at the Pegasus Booth #604 to discuss FGD optimization on Wednesday from !0:00-11:00 AM and from 1:00-2:00 PM. Bob McIlvaine will be there at 1:00 to also ask questions.
Pullman Power – Booth #324
Pullman Power has completed over 10,000 chimney projects including the five tallest chimneys in the world. Louisville Gas & Electric's (LG&E) 2,000 MW Mill Creek coal-fired power plant was required to add a wet scrubbing system to comply with EPA pollution control guidelines. As part of the wet scrubber installation a re-heater system was also installed. The re-heaters are designed for full flow heating of the treated flue gas prior to its release into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the re-heater proved inefficient and reduced the plant's energy production by approximately three percent. In addition, the re-heater system resulted in continual maintenance problems from leaking tubes, and the flue gas left a sulfuric acid residue as it passed through the stack. Over a period of time this residue caused severe deterioration of the carbon steel linings in the plant's three 630 foot stacks.
After evaluating the problem Mill Creek decided to remove the re-heater system, replace the stack's old titanium linings with "wall paper" linings made from C-276, a high nickel alloy, and install a new liquid collection system. Because C-276 does not rust or deteriorate in environments where the acidity level is 2.5-pH, the material is ideal for stacks subjected to sulfuric acid contamination.
Pullman Power, LLC, a Structural Group company, was awarded the contract to retrofit the stack linings and Alden Dynaflow received a contract to design and model the liquid collection system.
Roberts & Schaefer Company – Booth #314
Roberts & Schaefer has the limestone handling for the Coleman project from Wheelabrator. It also has the order for Cinergy Gibson, Cayuga, and Miami Fort. Previously an order had been placed by Advatech for the Paradise station of TVA.
The limestone facility at Gibson is designed to receive limestone from a rail unloading station and convey to a stockpile at a rate of 2,500 TPH. Limestone is reclaimed with hoppers and belt feeders to three day bins in the limestone preparation building.
The gypsum facility accepts gypsum from the dewatering building’s vacuum belt feeders to a transfer house. From there it is conveyed at 300 TPH to an emergency stockpile TPH or to another transfer house on its way to a 25,000 ton stockout.
A complete list of limestone handling and grinding projects supplied by Roberts & Schaefer is as follows:
Robinson Industries, Inc. – Booth #438
Robinson Backward Curve (BC) industrial fans are used for a wide range of applications in many industries. BC fans are engineered and built to accommodate capacities to one million cfm and pressure ranges to 120 inches water pressure. BC Series fans from Robinson are currently in operation in cement, power, coal, lime and paper facilities throughout the U.S. and the world. Robinson builds BC wheels to 180 inches diameter and, as required, units are constructed of special alloy materials.
SICK MAIHAK, Inc. – Booth #614
SICK MAIHAK offers in-situ and
extractive analyzers for gas and liquid analysis and measurement instrumentation
for dust, opacity, volume flow and level. The SIDOR is a gas analyzer for
measurement of up to two infrared components. Additionally oxygen can be
measured by integration of an electrochemical or paramagnetic measuring cell.
The significant characteristic is a half-yearly maintenance interval with test
gases. The stability of the measuring cells allows an adjustment with ambient
air within this half-year period. A barometric pressure compensation is included
as a standard.
SICK-MAIHAK offers both in-situ and extractive measuring technology for installation in complete systems. The in-situ analyzers are available in two versions: cross-stack and analyzers with a measuring probe for installation from one side. This enables the devices to be adapted efficiently to a wide variety of different system configurations. The in-situ technology is characterized by low maintenance requirements and very short response times by direct measurement in the gas duct extractive gas analyzers are suitable for a broad range of applications. They can be extended by numerous external system components to form a complete analysis system. This enables the analyzers to be adapted specifically to the measuring task. The task-specific adaptation of the systems is the main advantage of the extractive measurement.
Siemens Power Generation – Booth #101
The corporation is involved in a number of FGD Decision branches. Siemens furnishes complete supercritical generation systems. The high efficiency results in lower SO2 emissions per kWh. The company is also a supplier of emissions monitors. Plant optimization systems supplied by Siemens can reduce emissions and optimize reagent consumption.
Last year Siemens completed its acquisition of the USFilter Corporation from Veolia Environnement. This $993 million acquisition positions Siemens as the market leader in the water and wastewater treatment business in North America. USFilter will now become a part of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S), in the form of the newly-formed "Water Technologies" division. USF is providing FGD wastewater treatment systems. It separates heavy metals and is offering a membrane bioreactor approach to selenium removal.
Spectrum Systems, Inc. – Booth #554
Spectrum Systems supplies CEMS and maintains them. With an extensive inventory of analyzers, calibration gases, and recording devices, Spectrum provides continuous monitoring systems for trial burns, specialized fuel studies, emission determination assessments, pollution control equipment efficiency or other special needs.
Spectrum Systems provides a full range of maintenance services from one-time emergency visits to full-time service performed by personnel permanently assigned to specific customer sites
The company says that it has the engineering expertise to support an application, beginning with actual instrument and site selection to agency coordination and installation. It also offers startup, certification, and quality assurance programs
The Transportable Reference Method Laboratory offers a fast and cost effective means for CEM certifications, Relative Accuracy Test Assessments and Audits. Spectrum can conduct performance specification testing for instrumentation purchased through us or directly from the manufacture. Certification capability includes Opacity, SO2 NOx, CO, CO2, O2, THC and volumetric flow.
Stanley Consultants – Booth #444
Stanley Consultants has been selected by East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) to design and provide resident engineering services for the 278 MW Spurlock 4, which will use CFB technology. "Stanley Consultants has been working with EKPC for over 40 years," says Steve Schebler, Senior Vice President and Power & Energy Market Leader with Stanley Consultants. "We designed Units 1, 2 and 3 at Spurlock Station. This project continues our long-lasting relationship with EKPC." The new unit will take four years to design and construct. Construction of the unit is subject to approval from the Kentucky Public Service Commission and federal environmental approval under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Teledyne Monitor Labs – Booth #619
Formerly Monitor Labs, Lear Siegler Measurement Controls Corp., Odessa Engineering, Dynatron and United Sciences, Teledyne Monitor Labs is a leading supplier of environmental monitoring instrumentation for the detection, measurement, and reporting of air pollutants. We have over 30 years experience in providing state-of-the-art Continuous Emissions Monitoring products to a wide variety of industrial markets. With offices located in Englewood, CO and Gibsonia, PA, Teledyne Monitor Labs is able to provide improved and enhanced products and services to our customers.
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Rob Bott |
Vice Pres. of Sales |
8/17-8/18 |
|
Bob Hart |
Regional Sales Mgr. |
8/17-8/18 |
TIC – Booth #329
TIC - The Industrial Company (TIC) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIC Holdings, Inc. (TICH), a management-owned holding company. The TIC companies (including Western Summit Constructors, Inc. (WSCI)) are ranked 28th in revenues and 38th in new contract awards by Engineering News Record (ENR) with 2003 revenues of $1.281 billion and contract awards of $1.072 billion. Additionally, ENR has listed TIC among the top contractors in the following industries:
T.E Ibberson, a wholly owned subsidiary of TIC is headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota, and was established in 1898. Ibberson’s core competency is the design and construction of large slip form concrete structures for handling high load conditions
TIC is in a joint venture with Kiewit/Bibb to provide vertical FGD systems each in one concrete tower.
Mike Ross (TIC's Managing Partner for CAIRtech joint venture), Bob Alder, Mike Gregory, and Dave Johnson will be on hand during the Coal-Gen exhibition and will have details on the design. At 11:AM on Thursday there will be a networking discussion at the TIC booth #329 including questions from Bob McIlvaine.
See Kiewit/Bibb Booth #308 for details.
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Mike Ross |
Managing Partner for CAIRtech joint venture |
|
TRC – Booth #327
TRC provides a range of services to meet customers' environmental compliance needs for both ongoing operations and legacy environmental issues. Environmental and engineering services include permitting and licensing, due diligence review for acquisitions, operational support, and design/construction solutions. TRC has specialized expertise in fossil-fuel projects, renewables, natural gas facilities, pipelines and LNG terminals, and power delivery. TRC has designed pilot sized mobile fabric filters, scrubbers, and other APC devices. This provides the opportunity to determine the impacts of different fuels on performance rather than try to predict them.
TRC has worked on the following IPP projects:
Independent Power Producers Projects
Steve Trenholm of TRC will be interviewed by Bob McIlvaine at 2:30 PM at the TRC Booth (#327) on the subject of preliminary analysis and testing requirements prior to issuance of FGD specifications.
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Mobile |
Steve Trenholm |
Vice President |
(312) 961-3955 | ||
Carl Zoephel | czoephel@trcsolutions.com | |||
Joe Smith | Air Measurements | jsmith@trcsolutions.com | ||
Pete Catizone | Air Modeling | pcatizone@trcsolutions.com |
WorleyParsons – Booth #426
The acquisition of Parsons E&C by the Worley Group Ltd. was completed in 2004. The combined company has been officially renamed and is now known worldwide as WorleyParsons, a change that was effective July 1, 2005. The new company has over 10,000 employees in 59 offices in 29 countries and provides professional services to four major business sectors, Power, Hydrocarbons, Minerals & Metals and Infrastructure.
WorleyParsons coal plant experience includes over 35,000 MW’s of new generation, 12,000 MW’s of FGD systems, 9,000 MW’s of SCR system and numerous particulate control systems. We are an industry leader in supercritical coal plant design with 19 projects. Active major coal plant projects include two new 600 MW coal fired units, Cross 3 & 4, for Santee Cooper, multiple FGD and SCR retrofit projects for Progress Energy and American Electric Power and a mercury control baghouse project for PSE&G.
WorleyParsons has over 1000 employees dedicated to the Power industry located in three US offices; Reading, PA, Chattanooga, TN and our new Midwest office in Westchester, IL.
FGD Personnel
Name |
Title |
Booth Schedule |
|
Mobile |
Scott Johnson |
Director – Business Development |
TBD | (312) 543-2557 | |
Gerry Hart | Director – Business Development | TBD | Gerard.J.Hart@worleyparsons.com | (713) 805-0323 |
Bob Nespechal | Project Manager | TBD | Robert.Nespechal@worleyparsons.com | (630) 803-2253 |
George Leroux | Material Handling | TBD | George.W.Leroux@worleyparsons.com | None |
Zachry Construction Corp. – Booth #400
The Omaha Public Power District Board of Directors has authorized management to proceed toward executing a contract with the Nebraska City Power Partners that will lead to the construction of a 663 MW coal-fired power plant located near Nebraska City, Nebraska. Nebraska City Power Partners is a consortium of contractors that includes Black & Veatch, Gilbert Industrial Corporation and Zachry Construction. Construction is expected to begin in September, and commercial operations are to commence in 2009.
Huntington Environmental Partners (HEP), the joint venture team consisting of Barton Malow Company, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co., Inc. and Sentinel Constructors, Inc. (a Zachry Group Company), recently signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with PacifiCorp. The agreement covers retrofitting the company’s Huntington Power Station Unit #2 with a new flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system and converting the unit’s existing electrostatic precipitator (EDP) to a pulse jet fabric filter. HEP will convert the unit’s existing ESP casings to a pulse jet fabric filter system utilizing a low pressure high volume fabric filtration technology to collect particulate from the flue gas. The conversion is a process that is becoming increasingly common as more power plants seek air quality control system (AQCS) retrofitting to minimize emissions and improve air quality.
Tom James of Zachry Construction Corporation advises us that “there is a lot of misconception in the press and in Washington, D.C. regarding labor availability for clean air projects. It seems to center around ‘boilermakers’, a building trade union craft designation. These workers generally erect steel and perform other craft work on industrial projects. They typically do more work on SCRs than on FGDs. However, if owners are willing to consider other craft options for installing clean air equipment, for instance, open shop, projects can be done without ‘boilermakers’. There is no shortage of qualified craft workers for this type of work.”
Zenon Environmental, Inc. – Booth #106
At its May 9, 2005 annual meeting, Zenon estimated FGD wastewater treatment as a $10-30 million opportunity for each of the 100 new coal-fired plants under development. Zenon integrates biological selenium and mercury separation technologies with membrane bioreactors.
Zenon will supply the Yuhuan Power Plant, located in Zhejiang Province, China with its immersed ultrafiltration water treatment technology. The company’s ZeeWeed® membranes will pre-treat seawater before it is desalinated with reverse osmosis membranes. The ultrafiltration system will produce 76,800 cubic meters per day (or just over 20 million gallons) of high quality feedwater, which will then be led to a desalination process for the production of 34,560 cubic meters per day of water, once the plant is running. This site will serve as a key reference site for Zenon. “We’re very excited about this project, which is one of the world’s largest installations of its type,” said Andrew Benedek, Zenon Chairman and CEO. "Our ZeeWeed® technology is the ideal complement to extending the life and improving the performance of reverse osmosis membranes, particularly for seawater desalination." The Yuhuan power plant will house four sets of 1,000 MW coal-fired steam turbine generators, which will be built in two phases. The first phase of construction is scheduled for completion in 2007 while the second is set to be commissioned in 2009.