Indiana Coal-Fired Power Plant Plans Spring 2006 Outage to Upgrade FGD Scrubber

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Indiana Power and Light Company (IPL) (Indianapolis, Indiana), a subsidiary of AES Corporation (NYSE:AES)(Arlington, Virginia), selected Black and Veatch (Kansas City, Missouri) to lead the effort for the upgrade of a wet flue gas desulphurization (FGD) unit to improve SO2 (sulfur dioxide) emission reduction performance and reliability on the 574-megawatt (MW) Petersburg Unit #3 in Pike County near Petersburg, Indiana.

Petersburg Unit #3 is a 1977 Alstom/Combustion Engineering subcritical bituminous coal tangential-fired dry bottom boiler (4,200,000 pounds per hour, 2,400 psig at 1,000F) with a Universal Oil Products, Air Correction Division (UOP) (Des Plaines, Illinois), a subsidiary of Honeywell (NYSE:HON) (Morristown, New Jersey), wet FGD. Black and Veatch will utilize its home office and its Ann Arbor, Michigan office to fulfill the responsibilities of the contract. The unit is scheduled for a planned outage to perform the upgrade work in March 2006, with a completion date is set for May of the same year.

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