Boldt Starts Construction on 63.3 Megawatt Manitowoc Unit 09

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Manitowoc Public Utilities (MPU) (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) is utilizing Lutz, Daily & Brain LLC (Overland Park, Kansas) as engineer, Oscar J. Boldt Construction, a division of The Boldt Company (Appleton, Wisconsin) for balance of plant (BOP) construction, and Kvaerner Power Division (Charlotte, North Carolina), a subsidiary of Kvaerner ASA (OSE: KRNY.PK) (Lysaker, Norway) will provide the boiler island package for construction of the 63-megawatt (MW) coal/coke fired Unit 09 addition at the Manitowoc Power Station (Plant 1013064, PEC 19000703). Construction on the unit has begun.

MPU currently owns six generating units with a total capacity of 102.5 MW. The addition of Unit 09 will increase the utility's in-house capacity by 61.76% to 165.8 MW. Unit 09 is going to be environmentally friendly as it is a Kvaerner atmospheric fluidized bed boiler (ACFB), which is one of the best solid fossil fuel boilers for low sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. Unit 09 will also have a selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) system installed to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. The ACFB will provide steam to a Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI), a division of Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) (PNK: MSH.PK) (Tokyo, Japan) steam turbine/generator, plus up to 25,000 pounds per hour to local hosts for process and heating.

Construction completion of Unit 09 is planned by the fourth quarter of 2005.

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