B&W Announces Contract To Supply Environmental Control Technology For Colorado Power Plant
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced recently that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG), has been awarded a contract to design and supply two spray dry absorber (SDA) units and associated equipment for Xcel Energy's coal-fired Pawnee Generating Station in Brush, Colo.
The SDA systems are designed to control sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from the single-unit, 544 megawatt plant. The contract scope also calls for B&W PGG to supply atomizers, a reagent preparation system, structural steel and commissioning of the project.
"B&W PGG has supplied Xcel Energy's plants with several SDA systems in the past, and we are pleased to have been chosen again to meet Pawnee Generating Station's environmental control needs," said B&W PGG President and Chief Operating Officer Richard L. Killion. "B&W PGG has a diverse suite of technologies for the reduction of SO2 and SO3, nitrogen oxides, mercury, particulates and other emissions to assist our industrial and utility customers meet emissions limits."
Material delivery is scheduled for 2013, with tie-in of the SDA units expected in the fall of 2014.
SOURCE: Babcock & Wilcox Company