Conoco to build 730MW heat and power plant in UK
23 Jan 2002
Conoco Global Power (UK) is to build a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant alongside its Humber refinery in the United Kingdom.
Construction will begin immediately on the 730MW plant on land owned by Conoco adjacent to the company's Humber refinery at South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. The plant will be completed in early 2004.
The facility will supply steam and electricity to the Humber refinery, steam to a neighbouring refinery and electricity to the National Grid. It also will have the capacity to provide an alternative source of power and heat to other companies on the South Humber Bank.
CHP plants use natural gas-fired combustion turbines to generate electricity. Steam produced from the exhaust energy of the turbines is then used to generate additional electricity and heat for industrial use.
Conoco claims that the new CHP plant will substantially reduce atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), sulphur oxides (SOx), and nitrogen oxides (NOx), compared with power generation by conventional means.
The plant will also make better use of certain by-products of the refining processes, reduce surplus gas flaring and conserve water resources by using existing waste-water for cooling rather than fresh water.
