State's First Solid-Fuel Power Plant in 20 Years Receives WDNR Permits.Business Editors MANITOWOC, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2001 Permits have been issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) is an agency of the state of Wisconsin. Its purpose is to preserve, protect, manage and maintain the natural resources of the state[1]. , paving the way for construction of a 99-megawatt power plant in Manitowoc. "Energy Services of Manitowoc is the first solid-fuel power plant to be permitted in Wisconsin since the 1980s," explains Bart McCartin, chairman of the McCartin Group, one of the project developers and majority owner of the project. "This state-of-the-art facility will contribute needed electric generating capacity to the state and serve as a model for future solid-fuel plants." Energy Services of Manitowoc (ESOM ESOM Electronic Statement of Mailing (Post Canada) ESOM Evolving Self Organizing Map ESOM Enfield School of Motoring (Middlesex, UK) ESOM Electronic Systems Operating Manual ) will generate electricity using petroleum coke Petroleum coke (often abbreviated petcoke) is a carbonaceous solid derived from oil refinery coker units or other cracking processes.[1] Other coke has traditionally been derived from coal. in a highly controlled atmospheric fluidized bed A fluidized bed is formed when a quantity of a solid particulate substance (usually present in a holding vessel) is forced to behave as a fluid; usually by the forced introduction of pressurised gas through the particulate medium. boiler, the world's cleanest technology for burning solid fuel. Petroleum coke, a byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. of the petroleum manufacturing process, has a high heat value and currently is used in other facilities in an uncontrolled manner, or it is disposed in landfills. ALSTOM Power, a Belgium-based company with 6,000 US employees, will engineer and supply the equipment for the facility. ALSTOM is the world's largest supplier of solid-fuel power plants and employs leading-edge technologies for clean power production. An affiliate of ALSTOM Power, ALSTOM Power Investment Projects, is a co-developer and co-owner of the project. "ESOM will use what is essentially a waste product, and by employing both fluidized bed technology and a scrubber, it will comply with the most stringent pollutant removal standards of any solid-fuel electric generating station in North America by employing the best available control technology in the industry," McCartin explains. ESOM is the first utility power generation plant in Wisconsin to employ scrubber technology to remove pollutants from the exhaust gasses. "ESOM will demonstrate unprecedented reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions as well as cutting-edge emission controls for heavy metals heavy metals, n.pl metallic compounds, such as aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and nickel. Exposure to these metals has been linked to immune, kidney, and neurotic disorders. , particulates and nitrogen oxides. The power plant site will reclaim a vacant industrial property on Lake Michigan near the City of Manitowoc's municipal wastewater treatment plant Wastewater treatment plant also called wastewater treatment works
In addition to a permit regulating air emissions, the WDNR WDNR Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources WDNR Washington State Department of Natural Resources also issued permits for Lake Michigan water intake and discharge. ESOM will use a once-through cooling system, taking water from the lake and returning it at a compatible temperature. The intake system will be designed to minimize impacts to fish and other aquatic life by reducing the intake water velocity. Construction is scheduled to begin in late 2001 and will take a little more than two years to complete. |
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