Marsulex Environmental Technologies Corporation (MET) has announced the contract award for a major flue gas desulfurization (FGD) project in Israel. The project was awarded through its licensee, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Doosan), and follows the Orot Rabin FGD project that was announced last year.
Rutenberg, owned by Israel Electric and located in Ashkelon, will be supplied with two 550 megawatt capacity FGD absorbers. MET’s wet limestone FGD technology will be utilized to remove in excess of 95% of the boilers’ sulfur dioxide emissions and produce a wall board grade gypsum by-product. Start-up is scheduled for late 2013.
MET President, Robert Cardell, said,
“We are delighted in the confidence that Israel Electric has shown in MET’s FGD technology by making back-to-back awards of this type.”
In addition to limestone, lime and caustic-based wet FGD systems, upgrades of existing FGD systems and aftermarket services, MET offers a proprietary ammonium sulfate FGD technology (AS-FGD) which produces a high-value crop fertilizer by-product that has been successfully deployed on a full scale, commercial basis for over a decade. MET AS-FGD systems are in use in the U.S., Canada and China and another such system for a coal-fired power plant complex in Poland is currently in the engineering phase for a coal-fired power plant complex in Poland.
Marsulex Environmental Technologies (MET) is one of the world’s leading providers of FGD systems. MET FGD systems service over 95,000 megawatts of power generation in 22 countries. Information regarding MET’s products and services can be found at MET’s website, www.met.net.