Foster Wheeler‘s Milan-based subsidiary Foster Wheeler Italiana, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract for the front-end engineering design (FEED) and technical services for a new gasification island, based on Shell technology, to be built in South Korea by the selected engineering, procurement, and construction contractor Doosan Heavy Industries. The new plant, the gasification island of a coal-based integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant, is to be built at an existing coal-fired power fstation and the project is partially supported by the Korean government under its national Research, Development & Demonstration scheme.
Foster Wheeler’s contract value was not disclosed but it will be included in the company’s first-quarter 2009 bookings. The contract includesl undertaking the FEED, providing procurement assistance for long-lead items, developing a capital cost estimate, and providing technical training on gasification and technical support during the EPC phase. The IGCC plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
“We have considerable expertise in gasification and IGCC using a wide range of feedstocks. We believe that coal-based IGCC is an efficient and flexible technology and is part of a portfolio of products offered by Foster Wheeler for clean coal power generation,” said Marco Moresco, chief executive officer, Foster Wheeler Italiana.
“Doosan has great confidence in Foster Wheeler’s unrivalled experience and know-how in IGCC plants and technologies,” said Dong Soo Suh, Doosan’s executive vice president, “This contract further enhances our co-operation with Foster Wheeler, with whom we already have in place a clean coal technology licensing agreement for subcritical-pressure circulating fluidized bed steam generators.”
The IGCC process produces electricity from a solid or liquid fuel. Gasification converts the fuel to to syngas, which is a mixture mainly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The syngas is then cleaned to remove sulphur compounds and finally converted to electricity in a combined cycle power block consisting of a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator and a steam turbine.
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