Contracts & Projects: Power & Water

Drax Power Station is a month away from completing the largest steam turbine modernisation programme in UK history. The Siemens-led, five-year project, which has cost £100m, is expected to reduce plant emissions of carbon dioxide by 1m tonnes a year. (Read more)

Severn Trent Services (STS) is to supply an filter underdrain system for the Mundaring Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in the Perth area of Australia - the first public-private partnership water project of its kind in Western Australia.
The plant will have an initial capacity of 165m litres/day and a maximum capacity of 240m litres/day. (Read more)

AGE ENERJ? Yat?r?mlar? A?, one of Turkey’s major energy companies, has engaged Metso to automate a greenfield combined-cycle power plant in Denizli, Turkey. The 206MW greenfield power plant fuelled by natural gas is due to start up by the end of 2012. (Read more)

Aker Solutions has opened a carbon capture plant at the CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) - one of the world’s largest development facilities for carbon capture technologies. The centre is operated by TCM DA, a JV between Gassnova - on behalf of the Norwegian government - Statoil, Shell and Sasol. The TCM employs two different post-combustion technologies. Aker Solutions designed and delivered the amine plant, which is one of the two plants at the centre, and has a capture capacity of about 80ktpa. (Read more)

Drax has recently entered into a contract with the Shepherd Group for biomass-related construction works at its Yorkshire power station. Drax is investing £50m this year in new biomass storage and handling facilities and other plant modifications to support its existing co-firing facilities. (Read more)

Anglian Water is employing a Börger pump to handle crude imported sludge at r’s Market Harborough sewage treatment works. Supplied with a 5.5 kW motor, the Börger PL300 is fitted with long sealing line optimum rotors that increase longevity and volumetric efficiency. The rotary lobe pump replaced an old progressive cavity pump and macerator that kept allowing very stringy amounts of rags through, causing the unit to block up.

Emerson has installed its Ovation control system at two new 1,000-MW, ultra-supercritical, coal-fired power-generating units at the Huaneng Qinbei power plant in China’s Henan Province. The addition of Units 5 and 6 is part of an expansion project at the existing 4X600-MW facility. When the new units become operational during the first half of 2012, the Huaneng Qinbei power plant will produce a total of 4,400MW, playing an important role in generating power that will be transmitted to eastern China. Under the contract, Emerson will supply a total of 75 Ovation and 24 workstations. Ovation technology will monitor and control the boilers, supplied by Donfang Boiler Co.; turbines, supplied by Harbin Turbine Co.; and balance-of-plant processes at units 5 and 6. In total, the system will manage more than 29,000 I/O points.

Emerson is also to install its Ovation control system at a 660-MW power plant in Adipala, Indonesia. Due on stream in Q1/13, this is the first supercritical plant to be built by China National Technical Import and Export Corp. The technology will monitor and control the plant’s Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Co. Ltdboiler and Shanghai Electric Corp. turbine: managing some 11,000 I/O point, and the plant’s modulating-control, sequence-control, furnace-safety, feedwater turbine-control and electrical-control systems, as well as the supervisory and plant management system. Emerson will supply 19 Ovation controllers, nine workstations and its EDS enterprise visualisation technology.

Balfour Beatty Workplace has a £7m/year contract to deliver total facilities management (TFM) services across UK Power Networks property portfolio. The contract, which is for three years, with the opportunity to extend for a further two, covers about 80 UK sites across London, the South East and East Anglia. The TFM contract will deliver the company’s network operations and will also provide support to its back office functions and its executive based at its HQ in central London. Balfour Beatty mobilised the contract and transferred more than 270 staff from the client and existing providers and services started on 24 Feb.

Siemens is providing another Zimpro wet air oxidation (WAO) system to treat wastewater at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co. Ltd’s facility, near the Yangzi River in Jiangsu Province, China. The most recent of seven Zimpro WAO systems installed at Sinopec facilities will be used to treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams generated in the production of petrochemicals. The WAO system is designed to eliminate odorous sulfide pollutants and generate a biodegradable effluent that can be discharged to conventional biological wastewater treatment. The Yangzi system, which will treat around 4 m3/hr (17.6 gpm) of wastewater, is to be operational by the end of 2012.

Westinghouse Electric Co. has completed fabrication of all 157 fuel assemblies and related components needed to operate the first-ever AP1000 nuclear power plant, Sanmen Unit 1, in Zhejiang province, China. The fuel assemblies were completed at Westinghouse’s Columbia fuel fabrication facility in Columbia, South Carolina,and delivered to the Sanmen Nuclear Power Company (also in Columbia) for later shipment to China. Sanmen Unit 1 is scheduled to begin generating electricity in 2013.

Guodian Northeast Environmental Protection Industry Group Ltd has selected Siemens Industry Automation to supply an IPS composting system using a new ‘mechanically enhanced biodrying’ (MEB) process for the Shenyang wastewater treatment plant sludge treatment project in Shenyang, China. According to Siemens, this will be the largest IPS composting facility ever built, and one of the largest sludge treatment processes in the world using non-thermal processing. The IPS composting system is scheduled to be commissioned in the fall of 2012.

Xylem, formerly ITT Water & Wastewater, has won all four lots of a major new Thames Water framework agreement. The FA1003 agreement covers a period of three years, with an option for a further two years. The four lots include standard efficiency 9” membrane disc diffusers in lot 1; high efficiency modular diffusers in lot 2; interconnecting air main pipework and valves in lot 3 which is optional and replacement membranes and aeration grid spare parts in lot 4. The equipment will be used across all of Thames Water’s sewage and water treatment sites.

Xylem has recently commenced work on all five of the Thames Tideway improvement projects. The five major AMP 5 extensions involve sewage treatment works (STWs): Beckton STW near Barking; Crossness STW near Esher; Mogden STW in south west London; Longreach STW near Dartford; and Riverside STW near Rainham.

SIPOS Aktorik has secured a contract to supply valve control technology to a district heating network in Finland. Via the local partner, the supplier of electric actuation technology has been selected to supply the City of Seinäjoki with actuators equipped with Modbus RTU. For the project, SIPOS is providing fieldbus communication technology to support modernisation of the 250km district heating system, which has replaced an existing district heating system that used hand-controlled valves with a radio controlled solution.

Alfa Laval has won an SEK60m order from Wärtsilä Corp. to supply heat exchangers, boilers and separators for a combined cycle power plant to be built in Central America. Delivery is scheduled for 2012. The heat exchangers will be used for engine cooling, the separators for oil treatment and the boiler system for recovering heat from the engines’ exhaust gases to produce steam for the steam turbine.

Sellafield Ltd has awarded AXIOM - a JV between Jacobs, AMEC, Assystem and Mott MacDonald - one of two contracts for a design services alliance for its operation in West Cumbria, UK. AXIOM’s contract involves providing FEED support for all new facilities as well as refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities and systems to the production operations and infrastructure directorates at Sellafield.

Scottish Water has completed a £23m project to provide Campbeltown with a state-of-the-art wastewater system. The scheme - one of the biggest of its kind ever carried out in Argyll & Bute - involved upgrading key parts of the water infrastructure in the town. (More on Process Engineering)

National Grid, Advanced Plasma Power (APP) and Progressive Energy have launched a project to demonstrate the feasability of using of waste to produce bio-substitute natural gas (Bio-SNG). The project will be based at APP’s ‘Gasplasma’ facility in Swindon, UK. The partners will jointly design, install and test a demo plant, which will take the waste-derived synthesis gas from APP ‘Gasplasma’ process, and convert it to meet the specification for injecting it into the gas network.

Metso is to deliver automation technology to two major infrastructure projects currently under construction in South America: Belo, the world’s third largest hydroelectric plant in Brazil; and the TUY-IV project in Venezuela is a dam project aiming to supply water to Caracas. Both orders have been placed together with orders for Metso crushing and screening plants. (More on Process Engineering).

GEN II was recently named as the winning bidder for a multi-million pound, long-term training contract by Sellafield Ltd. The contract is to provide apprentice training for about 80 young people a year, further and higher education courses, such as foundation degrees in a number of nuclear disciplines and short courses ranging from safety to technical subjects.The announcement of the contract, which is currently anticipated to be worth around £25m over a maximum period of eight years, was made in the Skills Academy’s Northwest flagship centre, ENERGUS, where most of the Sellafield apprentices and HE learners are to be trained.

Alfa Laval has won an SEK120m order to supply plate heat exchangers to a nuclear power plant in Russia. Delivery is scheduled to start in 2013 and be completed during 2015. The units will be used in the reactor island cooling systems, where some of them will operate in the system that cools down the main reactor in case of any shutdown.

Work has begun on a 63km, underground pipeline to take water across Lincolnshire, UK.The £40m Anglian Water scheme will pipe water from the company’s Covenham reservoir near Louth down to Boston in order to secure supplies for the growing town. Work on the first 40km from Covenham to Anglian Water’s reservoir at Miningsby will be carried out this year, with the remaining 21km of main from Miningsby to Boston installed in 2013. When fully completed in two years time, the half-metre-wide pipeline will be able to carry 26 million litres of water south every day.

Scottish Water has launched a new division which will export the expertise it has built up in the past 10 years. The unit has won its first contract in Canada: to deliver training to operational staff in the water industry throughout Alberta. Scottish Water is delivering 15 training workshops on the management of water from source to tap. A Scottish Water team is in Alberta at the moment delivering the workshops, together with local and international partners contracted by Scottish Water.

Waternet has installed Rotork modulating electric valve actuators as part of an efficiency upgrade project at a large water treatment works serving Amsterdam. (More on Process Engineering)

Yorkshire Water has awarded a £28m contract for the design and build of a pioneering new energy scheme to a JV between Morgan Sindall and Grontmij. The contract, worth £25m to Morgan Sindall, is part of YW’s AMP5 large projects framework, to which the JV was appointed in September 2010. The project will be constructed this year and commissioned in early 2013. (More on Process Engineering)

Foster Wheeler has won a project management consultancy (PMC) contract for the Don Valley Power Project in Stainforth, Yorkshire, UK. The project is part of a carbon capture, utilisation and storage scheme being developed by 2Co Power (Yorkshire) Ltd. It comprises a 900MW IGCC power plant, CO2 transport, and storage combined with enhanced oil recovery. (More on Process Engineering)

Severn Trent Services (STS) has netted a framework agreement to provide its Tetra NSAF tertiary ammonia removal technology to support Thames Water Utilities Ltd’s multi-billion pound capital programme for AMP 5 (2010-15). The contract covers three years with optional extensions in two-year increments for the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of wastewater treatment packaged plants.

Metso will supply a 33MW wood pellet-fired district heating plant to Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy in the city of Tampere, Finland. The plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä JV MW Power. The delivery will comprise a full-scope turn-key boiler plant solution, including all the necessary equipment and commissioning. The plant will be Finland’s largest pellet-fired plant, based on a technological solution that is the first of its kind in Finland. It will be used as a peak load and backup plant and will replace some of the capacity of the existing oil- and gas-fuelled boiler plants.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has signed a resource protocol for the recruitment of employees from Magnox Ltd to Jacobs’ UKoperations. The deal gives Jacobs access to a skilled pool of talent to augment and develop its various teams of experts serving the industry. This protocol also increases the career choices available to Magnox staff who wish to continue to develop their careers in the nuclear industry. By providing future employment opportunities for its staff, Magnox can better retain essential skills at its sites.

In the US, Westinghouse Electric Co. has installed its reactor coolant pump (RCP) passive thermal shutdown seal in one dual-unit nuclear plant, and has received orders from five more utilities for a total of 37 reactor coolant pump (RCP) installations. (More on Process Engineering)

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