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Article: SPX to Design and Install First Flue Gas Discharge System at a U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plant.
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- Energy Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) announced that its Thermal Equipment and Services segment was awarded a contract in September of approximately $47 million to install a state-of-the-art flue gas discharge system and other upgrades to enhance the existing natural draft cooling tower at Cardinal Station. The coal-fired power plant, jointly owned by Buckeye Power and American Electric Power, is located in Brilliant, Ohio.
Flue gas discharge technology enables better dispersion of the exhaust plume into the atmosphere, resulting in reduced local ground-level concentrations. Treated flue gases will be conveyed from the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system into the cooling ...