A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Power Group’s Environmental and Industrial division has been awarded a contract by Longview Power to rehabilitate and optimise the wet flue gas desulphurisation system at their existing 700MWe Longview Power facility in Maidsville, West Virginia, USA. Foster Wheeler has received a full notice to proceed on this contract. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Foster Wheeler will provide new components as well as engineering and installation services to optimise the performance of the existing dewatering and forced oxidation systems with the fuel currently being used by Longview. Foster Wheeler is also adding a dual flow tray in the absorber to increase the overall SO2 reduction capacity of the existing system to handle higher sulphur fuels that Longview anticipates receiving in the future. The outage work is expected to take place in the spring of 2015.
“Our recent acquisition of the former Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control technology has allowed us to consolidate all our air pollution control equipment within our Clean Air Technology Center located in Pittsburgh, PA, to provide cost effective solutions for reducing air emissions from power plants and industrial facilities”, said Byron Roth, CEO of Foster Wheeler’s Environmental and Industrial Group.
