Babcock & Wilcox awarded $105 million construction project
7 Jun 2002
McDermott International has announced that Babcock & Wilcox Construction, a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), has been awarded a contract to erect nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction equipment at two power stations in the Midwestern US.
The contract, valued at more than US$105 million, calls for the mechanical installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems at Kyger Creek and Clifty Creek power plants.
The work is said to include installation of structural steel; reinforcement of structural steel, flues, SCR reactor, catalyst, ammonia piping, process piping and service piping; precipitator stiffening and revisions to induced draft fans.
B&W is teaming with American Electric Power, Babcock Borsig Power and Siemens Westinghouse for these SCR projects. The team is responsible for the engineering; design, procurement, installation, checkout and start-up for all work associated with the SCR retrofits.
