At the Babcock & Wilcox Research Center (BWRC), our mission is to be visionary in developing innovative technology solutions for current and future challenges.
Our $35 million, 66,500 square foot facility is located near Babock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. headquarters in Barberton, Ohio. It features modern laboratory and test facilities for the development of clean energy generation technologies.
Research activities at BWRC are organized into three technical areas, including:
- Energy conversion: Fossil fuel combustion, burner development, NOx control, high-temperature reaction kinetics, computational fluid dynamics and process modeling and related activities.
- Environmental technology: Post-combustion emission control systems, aqueous-phase reaction chemistry and kinetics, chemical modeling, catalysis, and reactor design.
- Materials engineering: Experienced in metallurgy, aqueous and fireside corrosion, material fatigue, welding, structural mechanics and finite element analysis.
Approximately 50 B&W employees work at research center. Highly-skilled professionals in each technical area perform the research and development activities using the following state-of-the-art pilot plants and bench-scale systems:
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- Research and Development
- B&W Research Center: Barberton, Ohio
- Clean Environment Development Facility: Alliance, Ohio
- Analytical Chemistry Lab
- Catalysis Lab
- Post-Combustion CO2 Capture
- Combustion Lab
- Emissions Control Lab
- Fireside Corrosion Lab
- Metallurgical Lab
- Pilot-Scale Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Facility
- SEM Lab
- Small Boiler Simulator II
- Water/Steam Lab
- Welding Lab
- Wet Scrubber Hydraulic Model
