The B&W Thermal enterprise of Ohio-based Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has acquired full discover to proceed underneath an settlement for a coal-to-natural fuel conversion challenge at AES Indiana’s Petersburg Producing Station, valued at roughly $246 million.
This advances the earlier restricted discover to proceed that B&W had beforehand acquired. The challenge is scheduled for completion within the first quarter of 2027.
The challenge will assist AES Indiana part out the usage of coal and scale back carbon dioxide emissions by changing the 1,160-megawatt (MW) Petersburg plant’s two coal-fired boilers to make use of pure fuel as gasoline, B&W mentioned in a information launch.
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The B&W Thermal enterprise will design and set up the plant’s new pure fuel system, air methods, and different tools. Babcock & Wilcox Development Co., LLC (BWCC) will carry out the development portion of the challenge. As well as, B&W subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox FPS, Inc. (FPS) will provide burners, ignitors, controls and different applied sciences for the challenge, based on the discharge.
“We started engineering and design work earlier this 12 months and are happy to be transferring ahead with this essential challenge for AES Indiana,” Chris Riker, Senior Vice President for B&W Thermal, mentioned. “We proceed to see vital curiosity from utilities within the U.S. and elsewhere that wish to change from coal to cleaner fuels, akin to pure fuel, to considerably scale back greenhouse fuel emissions and the general environmental impression of their producing belongings”.
“This huge, advanced challenge shall be coordinated throughout a number of B&W enterprise segments, together with our B&W Thermal, BWCC and FPS companies,” Riker added. “Our depth of information and experience permits us to easily and effectively execute massive, advanced fuel-switching tasks akin to this”.
Carbon Seize Examine in Sweden
In the meantime, Babcock & Wilcox additionally secured a contract to conduct a full-scale feasibility research of its SolveBright carbon dioxide (CO2) seize know-how to be built-in into Mälarenergi AB’s waste-to-energy plant in Västerås, Sweden.
The research will “give attention to the mixing of B&W’s SolveBright system with the waste-to-energy plant and district heating system, the administration and identification of usable warmth, the optimization and rebalancing of the waste-to-energy facility, and choosing the right technical configuration for greater operational effectivity,” the corporate mentioned in a separate information launch.
Mälarenergi’s purpose is to seize 400,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions yearly, completely retailer the CO2, and obtain carbon neutrality by 2035.
In response to B&W, the SolveBright scrubbing system is a post-combustion carbon seize know-how that absorbs CO2 straight from a plant’s flue fuel in an absorber utilizing a regenerable solvent.
“We’re happy to collaborate with Mälarenergi on this feasibility research to exhibit how B&W’s superior SolveBright know-how can dramatically scale back the Västerås plant’s greenhouse fuel emissions,” B&W COO Jimmy Morgan mentioned. “We sit up for contributing our many a long time of experience in waste-to-energy and flue fuel purification in assist of this essential buyer”.
“We’re excited to work with B&W on the mixing research of the seize plant in our waste-to-energy facility,” Mälarenergi Venture Supervisor Ivette Farias mentioned. “This challenge will facilitate our path in direction of vitality transition, driving our firm to our formidable net-zero goal”.
In response to the discharge, Mälarenergi’s waste-to-energy plant provides 50 p.c of Västerås’ district heating, serving to scale back electrical energy consumption and making certain vitality is out there for different wants. By integrating carbon discount efforts and capturing emissions, waste-to-energy services such because the Västerås plant play a pivotal position in advancing Sweden’s purpose of reaching net-zero emissions, it mentioned.
In June, B&W acquired a restricted discover to proceed (LNTP) from NorthStar Clear Power to work on a Bioenergy with Carbon Seize and Storage (BECCS) energy plant conversion in Filer Metropolis, Michigan.
Upon completion of the conversion challenge, the Filer Metropolis energy plant will use sustainable biomass as gasoline to generate energy with net-negative greenhouse fuel emissions. The challenge can even use SolveBright know-how to seize as much as 550,000 tons of CO2 yearly, which shall be completely saved underground, B&W mentioned in an earlier assertion.
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