Foster Wheeler Energy wins $11.25 million contract to supply eight ball mills for new China power plant.Energy Corp. has been awarded an $11.25 million contract to supply eight ball mill coal pulverizers for a new utility power station being built in the People's Republic People's Republic n. A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party. of China. The contract was won in open competition by the Services Division of Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. with sales assistance from Foster Wheeler Energy China, Inc., which is based in Beijing. Ball mill coal pulverizers are units that grind 1. GRIND - GRaphical INterpretive Display. A graphics input language for the PDP-9. ["GRIND: A Language and Translator for Computer Graphics", A.P. Conn, Dartmouth, June 1969]. 2. chunks of coal to the proper size to fuel pulverized-coal boilers. The eight Model D10D ball mills will be used with two 300 MW boilers, four ball mills per boiler boiler, device for generating steam. It consists of two principal parts: the furnace, which provides heat, usually by burning a fuel, and the boiler proper, a device in which the heat changes water into steam. , at a new Anshun power plant to be built by the Guizhou Province Electric Power Bureau. Commercial operation of the Anshun power plant is expected to begin sometime in 1998. The new plant will be located near Anshun, about 970 miles southwest of Beijing and about 43 miles southwest of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province. The two boilers at the Anshun power plant will be built by the Dongfang Boiler Works, which is licensed to use Foster Wheeler technology in designing arch-fired boilers. Certain noncritical parts of the ball mills will be fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: by local subcontractors, while critical components will be manufactured in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and shipped to China. The four ball mills for each boiler are capable of supplying 305,558 pounds per hour of pulverized pul·ver·ize v. pul·ver·ized, pul·ver·iz·ing, pul·ver·iz·es v.tr. 1. To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust. 2. To demolish. v.intr. anthracite coal Noun 1. anthracite coal - a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat anthracite, hard coal coal - fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period . The contract for the eight ball mills was awarded by the Guizhou Electric Power Bureau and the China Electric Power Technology Import and Export Corp. (CPTIC). CPTIC is the Chinese agency licensed to import equipment from companies such as Foster Wheeler. The Anshun power plant is being designed by the Southwest Electric Power Design Institute, which also has responsibility for reviewing the technical proposal for the mills. An affiliate of Foster Wheeler International Corp., Foster Wheeler Energy China, Inc. is responsible for the marketing of all Foster Wheeler energy equipment in the PRC. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. -- a major United States subsidiary of Foster Wheeler Corp. -- designs and fabricates steam-generating equipment for electric utilities, industrial users and public authorities. Foster Wheeler Corp. is a global company offering a broad range of design, engineering, construction, project development and management, research, plant operations and environmental services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, . The corporation's headquarters are at Clinton, N.J. CONTACT: Foster Wheeler Corp., Clinton Harry Levy, 908/713-3074 Richard C. Kroll, 908/713-3070 |
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