Foster-Wheeler

P. K. Ladwig, T. R. Steffens, S. L. Laley, D. P. Leta, and R. D. Patel, "Resid Processing in Fluid Catalytic Crackers," Foster Wheeler Heavy Oils Conference, Orlando, Fla., June 7, 1993. 

SNR s fluidized-bed cogeneiation system is an early example of the commercial development of AFBC technology. Foster Wheeler designed, fabricated, and erected the coal-fired AFBC/boHer, which generates 6.6 MWe and 37 MW thermal (also denoted as MWt) of heat energy. The thermal energy is transferred via medium-pressure hot water to satisfy the heat demand of the tank farm. The unit bums 6.4 t/h of coal and uses a calcium to sulfur mole ratio of 3 to set the limestone feed rate. The spent bed material may be reiajected iato the bed as needed to maintain or build bed iaventory. The fly ash, collected ia two multicyclone mechanical collectors, may also be transferred pneumatically back to the combustor to iacrease the carbon bumup efficiency from 93%, without fly ash reiajection, to 98%. 

Patrick M. Bemhagen, P.E., B.S.M.E., Senior Mechanical Engineer, Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Section 11, Heat-Transfer Equipment)... 

The Aero pulverizer (Foster Wheeler Coij).) is used for coal, pitch, and coke, blowing the ground material direcdly into the furnace. The housing is divided into two or three short cylindrical pulverizing chambers. 

The 600 MWe Simplified Boiling Water Reactor was designed by an international team consisting of EPRI, General Electric, Bechtel, Bums and Roe, Foster Wheeler, Southern Company, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California (Berkeley), other U.S. utilities. 

Figure 9-102. Cross-section of iow-head forced-draft tower showing fan housing arrangement, fiiling, water distribution spray system and spray eliminators. Used by permission of Foster Wheeler Corp., Cooling Tower Dept.

Cooling Tower Performance, Bulletin CT-43-2, Foster Wheeler Corp., New York, N.Y. 

Pfeiffer, E. L., Preliminary Cooling Tower Selection, Foster Wheeler Corp., Bui. CT-49-6, reprinted from Chem. Eng (date not given). 

Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation. 1995. Feasibility Study, Soil Volume refinement program, geotechnical sampling in the new toxic storage yard, section 31, Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Final Report. Version 2.0. 

Figure 12.70. (Foster Wheeler) Multi-zoned pyrolysis furnace...

The CFB gasifier at Varnamo, Sweden (modified Foster Wheeler technology)... 

Aquaconversion A process for converting heavy crude petroleum oils into lighter products which are more easily converted into more valuable products in oil refineries. Intended for use at the well head rather than the oil refinery. Developed by Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, Intevep, andUOP from 1998. 

ASCOT [Asphalt coking technology] A process combining de-asphalting and decoking, offered by Foster-Wheeler, United States. 

FW-BF [Foster Wheeler-Bergbau-Forschung] A dry flue-gas desulfurization process that combines the sulfur removal system of Bergbau-Forschung, which uses a carbon adsorbent, with the Foster-Wheeler process for oxidizing adsorbed sulfur to sulfuric acid. 

LEDA [Low energy de-asphalting] A process for removing the asphalt fraction from petroleum residues by liquid-liquid extraction in a special rotating disc contactor. The extractant is a C3-C6 aliphatic hydrocarbon or a mixture of such hydrocarbons. Developed in 1955 by Foster Wheeler USA Corporation and still widely used 42 units were operating in 1996. 

Stoic Also called Foster Wheeler-Stoic and FW-Stoic. A two-stage, nonslagging coal gasification process, operated under atmospheric pressure and using air as the oxidant. Initially developed by Stoic Combustion Limited Pty, South Africa licensed and further developed by Foster Wheeler Corporation, United States. First used in South Africa in 1950 now widely used in Europe, the United States, and South Africa. 

SYDEC [Selective yield delayed coking] A process which converts petroleum residues to petroleum coke and lighter hydrocarbons. Developed by Foster Wheeler USA Corporation. 

Foster Wheeler Wood LHV Lime kiln firing, 16 14.7 905 Air 700... 

Sydkraft, Vamamo, Sweden 6 MWe + 9 MWth In operation since June 1996 Biofuel Pilot plant Ahlstrom CFB Gasifier, Sydkraft and Foster Wheeler JV... 

For the conversion of coal to pure hydrogen, data provided by a study from Foster Wheeler (1996) have been used. As the specific C02 emissions already surpass those from the operation of conventional gasoline cars, C02 capture and storage needs to be applied to dispose of harmful GHG emissions down to about 6 gC02/MJ of pure hydrogen. In turn, the specific coal demand increases to about 2.302 MJ/MJ of pure hydrogen. 

Foster Wheeler (1996). Decarbonisation of Fossil Fuels. Report No. PH2/2, prepared for the Executive Committee of the IEA Greenhouse Gas R D Programme. 

Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation Stephen A. Newman... 

Schematic diagram of Foster Wheeler transpiring-wall SCWO reactor, 79... 

In the EDS II phase of the ACWA program, Eco Logic became the prime contractor for a team that also included Kvaerner Process Systems Inc., Foster Wheeler, and El Dorado Engineering. 

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