Breakthrough in the USA with waste-to-energy power plant for SWA in Florida
We have achieved our desired breakthrough in the United States and are to participate in the building of one of the world's largest waste-to-energy plants.
Our client is the Solid Waste Authority (SWA) of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach in the state of Florida.
After a long and complicated tender process, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund have now gained access to the giant waste-to-energy market in the United States. The project in West Palm Beach is both the first time that we have won an order in the United States and the first time an order has been won in partnership with The Babcock & Wilcox Company, our American parent company. The new plant will be operating commercially from 2015.
The new plant will be one of the largest in the world
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund will, in partnership with The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) and our consortium partner BE&K Construction, supply know-how, technology and equipment for three gigantic production lines which will each be capable of handling and incinerating 900 tonnes of waste a day - i.e. a total of nearly 3,000 tonnes of waste a day.
B&W will design and supply three mass burn boilers capable of generating up to 95 gross megawatts of electricity, combustion grates, ash systems, metals recovery systems, emissions control equipment - including a dry flue gas desulfurization unit, baghouse, carbon injection and selective catalytic reduction system - duct work and other components.
For this part we will be supplying our proprietary DynaGrate® combustion grate which is one of the most advanced available on the market.
Managing Director John Veje Olesen explains: "We are of course really pleased about this breakthrough on the American market. In the United States, there has so far been a tradition for disposing of all forms of waste in enormous landfills. But when we can demonstrate how much it will mean to the local area in Florida - both in environmental and financial terms - that we are able to handle and convert almost 3,000 tonnes of waste a day to environmentally friendly energy, we are convinced that many inhabitants will see the many environmental benefits associated with energy production based on waste."
