Coleson Cove Generating Station Getting New Lease on Life

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). NB Power Corporation (Fredericton, New Brunswick) a provincial owned utility has selected ADI Systems (Fredericton, New Brunswick) an employee owned service group as their engineer and Babcock & Wilcox Canada Limited (B&W Canada) (Cambridge, Ontario) a subsidiary of Babcock and Wilcox Company (Barberton, Ohio) a subsidiary of McDermott International, Incorporated (NYSE: MDR) (New Orleans, Louisiana) to perform upgrades to improve plant efficiency, extend plant life, and comply with environmental mandates at the 1,050 megawatt (MW) Coleson Cove generating station located in Saint Johns, New Brunswick.

Construction on the fuel conversion of number 6 oil to orimulsion (liquid fossil fuel 30% water & 70% bitumen), life extension, and environmental upgrades on the three oil opposed-fired B&W boilers each 2,250,000 pounds per hour, 2,500 psig @ 1005F commenced in November. The work will require burner upgrades, injection systems, stacks, additional controls, fuel storage tank (1,400,000 barrels) modifications, wet flue gas desulfurization units (FGD), and wet electrostatic precipitators.

The project is to be completed by November 2004 and will require each of the boilers to be down for a three month outage to do the modifications and tie-ins.

NB Power came in to being in 1880's but not as a provincial entity until 1920. NB Power employs 2,500 personnel and has a generation capacity of 3,769 megawatts (MW) and services over 340,000 customers.

ADI Group is comprised of more than 200 employees and several companies and operates in over 20 countries with annual billing in excess of $40 million per year. ADI was formed in 1945 and provides consulting, engineering, architect, procurement, and financial services.

B&W has provided energy solutions for over 135 years in over 800 utilities in 90 countries and employs nearly 11,000 people worldwide. Customers serviced include electric power, nuclear power, pulp & paper, industrial and environmental areas.