Success Stories

From The Leader in Clean Power Production Technologies

From Black Liquor to Sludge: Converting a Recovery Boiler to a Bubbling Fluid Bed

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has extensive experience with boiler conversions and modifications, including extensive refurbishments of older recovery boilers to BFB conversion while reusing existing buildings and ancillary equipment.
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B&W’s Open-Bottom Bubbling Fluidized-Bed Technology Designed for Biomass Firing

Bubbling fluidized-bed (BFB) systems are attractive when wide fuel flexibility is required, and for firing high moisture and lower heating value fuels. B&W’s solution – an open-bottom bubbling fluidized-bed unit, was the first such B&W design in North America.
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Waste-to-Energy Technology — Landskrona Incineration Plant in Sweden

Multi-fuel combined heat and power plant project included an SNCR, semi-dry flue gas cleaning with fly ash system and residual silo.
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AffaldPlus, line 4 - Næstved, Denmark

The DynaGrate® combustion system is the result of more than 40 years of development. The air-cooled grate is ideal for the incineration of both domestic and industrial waste because of the high efficiency combustion, excellent utilization of energy and good bottom ash quality.
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Assens Fjernvarme Amba - Denmark

The building of the combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Assens is part of the political 1993 biomass agreement aimed at converting all district heating plants larger than 1 MW into biomass-based CHP plants. It has the capacity to supply nearly all of the town’s 5,400 inhabitants with combined heat and power.
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Wood-fired Combined Heat and Power Plant

Junckers Industrier A/S is Denmark’s largest wood processor and manufacturer. The factory processes more than 500,000 tons of logs into solid wood parquet flooring and tabletops annually. In July 1996, Junckers Industrier A/S contracted with Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund) for the building of a new multifuel-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant.
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Industrial Boilers for Canadian Oil Sands

Alberta’s high-quality oil sands deposits are a major contributor to Canada’s economy and North America’s energy needs. Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) was selected to help advance one site’s responsible development and efficient production of its estimated 4.6 billion barrels of recoverable bitumen resource.
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Integrated Refinery & Petrochemical Complex (IRPC) 2

IRPC, the first fully integrated petrochemical complex in Southeast Asia, is located in an industrial area of Rayong, Thailand, with energy and sea port operations to support the area’s businesses. A subsidiary of Global Power Synergy PCL, IRPC Clean Power Company, Ltd., (IRPC CP) owns and operates a cogeneration plant that produces and sells steam and electrical power.
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Selected Project Examples Which Demonstrate the Breadth of Our Experience

B&W Environmental, through its SPIG product line, is a global provider of custom-engineered cooling systems and services. Established in Italy in 1936, SPIG solutions are known throughout the world, with project-based solutions and operations in nearly 50 countries. Our Paruzzaro cooling system center of excellence employs approximately 150 people in locations worldwide.
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Submerged Grind Conveyor Helps Plant Eliminate Ash Pond

Platte River Power Authority’s Rawhide Energy Station, northwest of Wellington, Colorado, is among the most efficient plants in the western U.S., averaging an equivalent availability factor of more than 90 percent and an average capacity factor of nearly 90 percent. The plant generates and transmits power to homes and businesses throughout its owner-communities in Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont and Loveland, Colorado.
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Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization Systems – Progress Energy

Babcock & Wilcox’s (B&W) wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems feature a combination of design components to provide a high level of reliability and removal efficiencies. These include B&W’s signature tray tower design to provide excellent gas to liquid contact and uniform flow distribution.
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San Juan Generating Station Air Quality Control Systems

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) provides cost-effective control of particulate emissions and opacity with our proven pulse jet and reverse air fabric filter technologies. We have provided some of the largest fabric filters in the world. Innovative design features such as long bag technology, integral gas and dust distribution devices, as well as online maintenance capability provide benefits of increased reliability while achieving lower emissions.

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