Contracts & Projects: Environment

Cynar plc has awarded Rockwell Automation an $11m contract to design and build a plastics-to-fuel conversion plant in Bristol, UK for SITA UK ltd - a Cynar customer and partner in the development. Cynar has developed a technology that converts end-of-life plastics into fuel. The contract includes the design and build of process skids, automation architecture, software, power control and engineering/startup services in one fully integrated solution, using the Rockwell’s PlantPAx process automation system. A Rockwell team has worked with Cynar over the past two years developing the engineering, modularisation and process improvements of its conversion plant.

Siemens Industry Automation 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.

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.

Jacobs Engineering Group is to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for Vale Canada Ltd’s Sudbury smelter in Ontario, Canada. The $55m contract includes the design of the complete sulfuric acid plant contact section, as well as supply of all equipment. The plant will use Jacobs’ proprietary Chemetics equipment, including stainless steel converter, radial flow gas-gas exchangers, acid coolers and distributors and piping. The new plant is part of a project to cut SO2 emissions at the Sudbury site by more than 70%.

Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Joule to design and build a renewable fuel production facility in New Mexico. The facility is intended to test and scale up a process for the commercial production of liquid fuels via Joule’s technology, which uses sunlight to convert industrial waste carbon dioxide into liquid hydrocarbons, ethanol or chemical products.

Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Joule Unlimited Inc., to design and build a biofuels demo facility in New Mexico. The facility is intended to scale up a pilot process currently producing liquid fuels via Joule’s novel technology, which uses sunlight to convert proprietary organisms and carbon dioxide into liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol.

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)

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.

Grimley Smith Associates, part of Fabricom GDF SUEZ (UK), is to design a bio-polymer demonstration facility that Plaxica plans to build at Wilton International on Teesside. Plaxica is a technology and licensing company focused on the production of biopolymers and chemicals from renewable resources, such as sugarcane, cereals and cellulose. The proposed demo plant will use energy efficient processes to produce second generation polylactic acid (PLA) based materials.

North west England-based Industrial Purification Systems (IPS) has reported a surge in demand for its water filtration technology with orders of over £250k secured in the past two months alone. This includes orders from Tata Steel.

Metso will supply Mälarenergi’s combined heat and power plant (CHP) in Västerås, Sweden, with the world’s largest recovered fuel fired boiler. The new boiler with a fuel input of 167 MW will utilise circulating fluidised bed technology and it will serve as a base unit to meet the disctrict heating power needs of Västerås and Hallstahammar municipalities. Metso’s delivery will account for about 30% of the approximately Euro300m modernisation project of the CHP plant.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has won a framework contract from Gassnova SF for its CO2 Capture Mongstad (CCM) project at the Mongstad refinery site in Norway. From its office in Leiden, The Netherlands. Jacobs is to support the installation of a large-scale CO2 capture plant for a CHP plant, which is integrated with the refinery and includes fuel gas/electricity exchange with the Troll gas field. The work involves individual call-off contracts which could include feasibility and concept studies, 3D modeling, interface coordination, detailed engineering and construction plans, HSE management and HSE engineering activities, including a site-wide noise control strategy, and cost estimates.

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