Marsulex Environmental Technologies (MET) has been awarded a contract by RC Cape May Holdings, LLC for a performance upgrade package for the B. L. England Unit 2 wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system at its B. L. England Unit 2 power plant in Beesley Point, New Jersey. MET will provide engineering, components and services for a retrofit of its proprietary and patented absorber liquid redistribution devices (ALRDs) to increase the removal of sulfur dioxide from the 170-megawatt plant’s flue gas stream. WorleyParsons is serving as the plant’s architect engineer for the project.
Engineering and delivery of components will be completed to support installation of the ALRD technology over scheduled unit outages this fall and next spring. The Unit 2 FGD system is a limestone reagent, open spray tower design originally provided by MET’s predecessor company, General Electric Environmental Services, Inc. (GEESI) and was placed in service in 1994.
MET’s ALRD technology enhances the performance of open spray tower FGDs without the imposition of the system back-pressure and energy requirements that are associated with other performance enhancement means such as perforated trays and packing. The ALRDs improve both the treatment of the flue gas as well as the utilization of re-circulated scrubbing slurry within the FGD system.
MET President, Bob Cardell, commented that this contract serves as the most recent example of MET’s continuing commitment to support customers, both old and new, to improve their existing FGD plants, regardless of the original OEM.
“MET and the B. L. England plant have maintained an excellent, ongoing relationship for well over a decade since the installation of Unit 2’s FGD system, and we are very pleased to provide them with the technology and services needed to meet their future, more stringent level of emissions.”
In addition to providing new limestone/lime and caustic-based wet FGD systems and aftermarket upgrade projects of this type, MET offers a proprietary ammonium sulfate FGD
technology which produces a high-value crop fertilizer by-product and has been successfully demonstrated on a full scale, commercial basis for over a decade. MET also recently launched a new website, www.met.net, where additional information can be found regarding its products and services.
MET is one of the world’s leading providers of FGD systems and has one of the largest installed bases of wet FGD systems in the world. MET’s FGD technology has been utilized on over 85,000 megawatts of power generation in 22 countries.