At The Babcock & Wilcox Company Research Center (BWRC) in Barberton, Ohio, our mission is to innovate ... to be visionary in developing technology solutions for current and future challenges.
The $14 million, 55,000-square foot facility, which was inaugurated in August, 2007, is located near B&W's Barberton headquarters. It features new laboratory and test facilities with state-of-the-art instrumentation and controls. It replaces an outdated facility in Alliance, and will be a center for innovation as the company works to develop the next generation of steam production and pollution control technologies, including technologies to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the emissions of coal-fired power plants.
More than 50 B&W employees work at the BWRC.
Labs, equipment and other features:
- Small Boiler Simulator (SBS) II: an integrated combustion and environmental control system
- Hydraulic Model: this model is used to study fluid interactions and flow dynamics of flue gas desulfurization systems (scrubbers)
- Clean Environment Development Facility (CEDF): located in Alliance, Ohio, this test facility will be used for oxy-coal combustion research
- CO2 Capture Lab: used for the design and development of absorption systems using advanced amines and an enzyme-based process being developed jointly with CO2 Solution, Inc. of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- High-Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope: this advanced electron microscope technology is used to evaluate materials to enhance B&W's ultra-supercritical boiler technology and to improve catalytic systems for emissions control
- Entrained Flow Reactor: the reactor is used to study the fundamental science of coal combustion
- Fireside Corrosion Facility: the equipment is used to evaluate advanced materials for super- and ultra-supercritical boilers
- Catalysis Lab: provides support for catalyst deactivation studies for selective catalytic reduction systems
- Plasma Transferred Arc Facility: this equipment is used in formulating advanced alloys
- Bench-Scale Mercury Testing Lab: this lab provides enhanced understanding of the chemistry of mercury within B&W's scrubbing systems for capture improvements
For more information, please contact us.
The B&W Research Center
Hydraulic model
Fireside corrosion facility