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PLANT OF THE YEAR
Table 2. Primary project vendors and partners. Source: SaskPower
Contribution
Project partner
Unit 3 upgrade
AB Western
ABB
Babcock & Wilcox
Hitachi (now MHPS)
Stantec
Westwood
ABB
ABB - Trax International
Babcock Borsig Service GmbH
Cansolv Technologies Ltd. (a Shell Global Solutions
subsidiary)
Cenovus Energy
GEA
MAN Turbo Diesel
Siemens
SNC-Lavalin
SPX Cooling Technologies
Turbine island mechanical construction
New distributed control system
Boiler rebuild: All new convective sections, low-NOx burners,
separated overfire air system, primary airheaters
New 160-MW turbine
Engineering consultancy
Electrical install
Carbon capture and compression facilities
Distributed control system
Control system and training simulator
Flue gas cooling system
Amine capture technology
Compressed CO2 pipeline and EOR storage
Water treatment system heat exchangers
CO2 compressor
Electric motor to drive the CO2 compressor
Carbon capture facility EPC
Cooling towers
2. New prime mover. A new 160-MW turbine from Hitachi was essential to giving Unit
3 a new lease on life. Source: POWER/Gail Reitenbach
3. Diverted flue gas. Scott Walton,
production manager for Units 3 and 4, and
Corwyn Bruce, manager of carbon capture
and sequestration initiatives, look up at the
point where the flue gas ducting leaves Unit
3, headed to the capture facility. Steam and
its returning condensate, as well as a small
capture facility wastewater stream and a few
other services, are suspended on the same
structure that holds the ducting. Source:
POWER/Gail Reitenbach
Though the BDPS site isn't as space-constrained
as some, Dalton Giblett, the site's
non-building facilities manager, noted that
while construction was under way on Unit
3 and CC projects-as well as other capital
projects-it was impossible to get from one
side of the plant site to the other without
making a long detour. There were 250 to 275
workers on site prior to the project and nearly
1,500 during project construction. Just managing
the safe movement of all those extra
people was a challenge.
Most large power projects these days inCarbon
Capture and Storage Initiatives Ian
Yeates explained in emailed comments that
one of SaskPower's strengths is its ability
to take on large initiatives in a way that accesses
the broad skills of its people. " In the
case of BD3, expertise from all areas of the
company, starting with the executive and
leadership team, but more importantly extending
to the individuals who actually get
things done, was focused on completing
the project successfully. . . . The success
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of the project truly belongs to the company
as a whole. "
Delivering a First-of-a-Kind Project
The province got serious about developing
the BD3 project in February 2008, which was
also when the Canadian federal government
allocated C$240 million for it. Construction
on the boiler island upgrade began in January
2013; construction on the CC retrofit project
officially began in May 2011.
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volve a global supply chain, but this project
is arguably more international than most-
from the suppliers of turbine (Figure 2) and
heat exchangers to the sequestration site
monitors. Many of the primary partners and
vendors are listed in Table 2.
Schedule and Safety
Although the capture plant was approved in
May 2011, widespread area flooding soon
thereafter, plus a missed opportunity to close
in facilities before winter, pushed out that
plant's online date. The unavailability of
tradesmen (who were in high demand at the
time in western Canada's oil and gas industry)
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