May 16 2008
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that a subsidiary of The Babcock + Wilcox Company has been awarded a contract valued at more than $70 million to engineer and supply a circulating fluidized bed boiler and related emissions control equipment for Great River Energy's Spiritwood Station - a combined heat and power plant near Spiritwood, North Dakota.
In addition to the CFB boiler, B&W will design and supply Spiritwood’s advanced air quality control system, including a pulse jet fabric filter baghouse for particulate control, a spray dry absorber flue gas desulfurization system and a selective non-catalytic reduction system for nitrogen oxides control. The CFB boiler will be designed to burn lignite coal.
“This is the first project B&W has done for Great River Energy and it presents an outstanding opportunity to showcase our well-established CFB and environmental systems technology and meet the needs of our customer,” said Brandon Bethards, President of B&W’s Power Generation Group.
Engineering is underway at B&W’s Barberton, Ohio facility and at Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Company (“BWBC”) Ltd., B&W’s joint venture in Beijing, China. B&W also will procure certain pressure parts for the boiler from BWBC. Commercial operation of Spiritwood is scheduled to begin in March 2010.