Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for New Pulverized-Coal Boiler

Foster Wheeler Ltd's U.S. subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Global Power Group, has been awarded a contract to design and supply a new 200 megawatt pulverized-coal-fired steam generator for a new power plant to be built at City Water, Light & Power's Dallman Generating Station in Springfield, Illinois, USA. Foster Wheeler will supply the steam generator to Kiewit/Black & Veatch, the owner's lump-sum turnkey engineering, procurement and construction contractors for the new power plant. Foster Wheeler's contract is in excess of $40 million.

The new plant will be equipped with Foster Wheeler's state-of-the-art MBF coal pulverizers, low NOx Vortex series burners complete with an advanced closed loop measurement and control system for lower NOx generation, and an integrated selective catalytic reduction system to minimize NOx emissions from the unit.

City Water, Light & Power plans to retire its aging 76 MW Lakeside plant, northeast of the Dallman facility, after the new power plant is completed in 2009.

"The (Lakeside) plant is very old and not very efficient," said Jay Bartlett, chief utilities engineer, City Water, Light & Power. "The new plant will be 20 times more environmentally clean than the current Lakeside stations, and is designed to burn Illinois coal cleanly and meet current environmental requirements."

"This is another example of Foster Wheeler's commitment to supply cost-effective twenty-first century environmental solutions to our customers and to the power industry, facilitating our nations reliance on coal, our most abundant energy fuel," said Bernard H. Cherry, chief executive officer of Foster Wheeler Global Power Group.

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Posted 12/01/06

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