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Dry Fork Station Case Study
Dry Fork Station – Wyoming, USA
Basin Electric Power Cooperative Wyoming Municipal Power Agency
Gillette, Wyoming
Plant Owner
Basin Electric Power Cooperative Wyoming Municipal Power Agency
Location
Gillette, Wyoming
Contract Order: 2007
Commercial Operation: 2011
B&W Scope
- Coal-fired boiler with air quality control equipment
- Construction by Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., LLC
- Startup and commissioning advisory services
- Training
Boiler Specifications
- Boiler type: Pulverized coal-fired radiant drum boiler (RB Carolina-Type)
- Design fuel: Low sulfur Powder River Basin subbituminous coal
- Nominal capacity: 400 MW net
- Steam flow: 2,887,000 lb/h (364 kg/s)
- Superheater outlet pressure: 2483 psig (17.1 MPa)
- SH/RH outlet temperature:1055/1055 F (568/568 C)
Environmental Equipment
- B&W AireJet® low NOx burners and overfire air
- Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) NOx removal system
Other Equipment Supplied by B&W
- B&W Roll Wheel® pulverizers, Series 89
- Sootblower boiler cleaning systems
- Powerclean® intelligent sootblowing system
- Dry bottom ash system
Sectional Sideview of the Dry Fork Station Boiler with Environmental Equipment and Dry Bottom Ash System.
1: Boiler furnace
2: Selective catalytic reduction (SCR)
3: AireJet low NOx burner
4: Dry bottom ash system