Babcock & Wilcox To Conduct Testing of Mercury Removal Technology At Coal-Fired Power Plants.Business Editors BARBERTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000 The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), a subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MDR MDR, n See multidrug resistance. MDR, n the abbreviation for minimum daily requirement, specifically the Minimum Daily Requirements for Specific Nutrients compiled by the United States Food and Drug Administration. ), has completed agreements with host utilities to test its Advanced Mercury Removal Technology at two coal-fired power plants. These tests will be full plant demonstrations at 55 MWe and 1300 MWe scales and are scheduled for spring and fall 2001. On December 14, 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and (EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. ) announced its intent to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants beginning in 2004. B&W has conducted extensive research on air toxics and specifically mercury since 1993 in the B&W 10 MWe Clean Environment Development Facility at Alliance, Ohio Alliance is a city in Mahoning and Stark counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 23,253 at the 2000 census. Alliance's nickname is "The Carnation City" and the city is home to Mount Union College. . A key objective was to provide the most cost-effective solution to removing flue gas Flue gas is gas that exits to the atmosphere via a flue, which is a pipe or channel for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, oven, furnace, boiler or steam generator. Quite often, it refers to the combustion exhaust gas produced at power plants. mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. These full-scale plant demonstrations are the final steps toward commercial deployment of the technology. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Ohio Department of Development's Ohio Coal Development Office are providing funding support for technology development and plant demonstration. The Babcock & Wilcox Company is a subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc., a leading worldwide energy services company. McDermott subsidiaries manufacture steam-generating equipment, environmental equipment, and products for the U.S. government. They also provide engineering and construction services for industrial, utility and hydrocarbon processing facilities, and to the offshore oil and natural gas industries. Though there are many companies that contain the name Babcock, the U.S.-based Babcock & Wilcox is the original, founded by George Babcock and Stephen Wilcox in 1867. |
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