Marsulex Environmental Technologies (“MET”) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Minnkota Power Cooperative, Inc. (“Minnkota”) to design, supply and install a wet flue gas desulfurization (“FGD”) system and lime preparation system at its lignite-fired, Milton R. Young Station near Center, North Dakota. MET will supply technology, engineering and FGD equipment for Unit 1, rated at 250 megawatts, and will also design, supply and erect the lime storage, handling and preparation system. Burns & McDonnell of Kansas City, Missouri, will serve as Minnkota’s architect engineer for the project.
The system features MET’s enhanced, open spray tower design utilizing lime-based reagent and is designed for inhibited oxidation of reaction by-product. The system is designed to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, particulates, mercury and other air emissions to specified levels. The new lime preparation and inhibited oxidation systems will supply reagents for both the existing Unit 2 FGD system as well as the new Unit 1 system. Engineering will commence immediately. Start-up of the FGD system is scheduled for April 2011.
MET’s President said that this award affirms MET’s success in re-entering the U.S. FGD market.
“We are pleased to have been selected by Minnkota for this very important project. This continues our strategy of working with selected key customers in the U.S., and around the globe.”
MET has one of the largest installed bases of wet FGD systems in the world and which is nearing 80,000 megawatts of power generation serviced. In addition to its North American projects, MET continues to have ongoing success in the Chinese FGD market and elsewhere worldwide.
Marsulex Environmental Technologies (MET) is one of the world’s leading providers of FGD systems. MET FGD systems service over 75,000 megawatts of power generation in 22 countries. Visit www.met.net for additional information.