Fuel Tech Awarded Air Pollution Control Orders Totaling $3.7M

Batavia, IL - Fuel Tech, Inc. The leader in advanced engineering solutions for the optimization of combustion systems in utility and industrial applications, recently announced the award of multiple air pollution control (APC) contracts totaling $3.7M .

The most significant order, placed by City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri, is for the installation of two NOxOUT ULTRA systems, one at Southwest Power Station Unit 1, a 195 megawatt (MW) coal-fired unit, and the other at Southwest Power Station Unit 2, a 300 MW coal-fired unit currently under construction. Equipment delivery for these systems is scheduled for the second and third quarters of 2008, respectively. The remaining APC orders primarily represent mapping and modeling activities, including work for a Korean customer.

The NOxOUT ULTRA systems associated with this announcement will support the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems to be installed by City Utilities for nitrogen oxide (NOx) control. Fuel Tech's patented NOxOUT ULTRA process provides for the safe and cost-effective on-site conversion of urea to ammonia for use as a reagent in the SCR process, eliminating the hazards associated with the transport, storage and handling of anhydrous or aqueous ammonia.

"We are very pleased to report our first NOxOUT ULTRA sale to a municipally owned utility," commented John F. Norris Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer. "With numerous SCR systems scheduled to be deployed in the United States during the next several years, we are working hard to attract other municipal and private utilities to Fuel Tech's urea-to-ammonia conversion technology, and hope to report additional successes in the near future."

SOURCE: Fuel Tech, Inc.