Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. has signed a contract to replace a coal-fired boiler on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus with a biomass boiler that will generate steam and electricity from clean, renewable biomass fuel.
B&W PGG, a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Co., will design, engineer and supply a 150,000 pound-per-hour bubbling fluidized bed boiler designed to burn chipped hardwoods and various local opportunity fuels near the university campus. The new boiler will be retrofitted within the university physical plant’s existing structure. The physical plant provides the university campus with electricity and steam for heating and other uses. Engineering work is underway at B&W PGG’s Barberton, Ohio, headquarters. Delivery is scheduled for next summer.
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