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Apex Expansion Project, Final Environmental Impact Statement
The purpose of the Apex Expansion Project is to transport an additional 266 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas on Kern River’s existing pipeline system from southwestern Wyoming to Nevada. Dependent upon Commission approval, Kern River proposes to begin construction in the fall 2010 and place the facilities into operation in November 2011. Kern River proposes to construct and operate: • approximately 27.6 miles of 36 – inch – diameter natural gas transmission pipeline loop extending southwest in Utah from Morgan County through Davis County to Salt Lake County • one new 30,000 horsepower compressor station (known as Milford Compressor Station) in Beaver County, Utah; • modifications to four existing compressor stations to add additional compressor (the Coyote creek Compressor Station located in Uinta County, Wyoming; the Elberta Compressor Station located in Utah County; and the Dry Lake Compressor Station located in Clark County, Nevada); • six mainline valves (four new and two existing that require modifications;) and • three pig launcher and two pig receiver facilities
Revision Date: 10/19/2016
Tags: 211111 - Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction 原油和天然气开采, Kern River Gas Transmission Co, Gas Turbine, Pipeline, Compressor Stations, Valves, Pipeline, Modification, Compression, Permitting, USA, USA, USA, USA
Kern River Informational Postings
■Based in Salt Lake City, Utah ■1,717-mile pipeline system, of which more than 1,300 miles are 36inch-diameter steel pipe ■384,220 compressor horsepower ■2.17 Bcf/day design capacity ■Access to Rocky Mountain basins ■Markets in Utah, Nevada and California
Revision Date: 10/17/2016
Tags: 211111 - Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction 原油和天然气开采, Kern River Gas Transmission Co, Compressor Stations, Pipeline, Pipeline, Operations, Compression, USA, USA, USA, USA
Kern River APEX Expansion Project
The Apex Expansion Project included the construction of 28 miles of 38in pipeline called the Wasatch Loop and other facilities in the Kern River interstate pipeline system. Owned and operated by Kern River Gas Transmission Company, the Kern River pipeline has been operational since 1992. The $373m expansion increased the natural gas transmission capacity of the pipeline system by 266mmcf/d.
Revision Date: 10/17/2016
Tags: 211111 - Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction 原油和天然气开采, Kern River Gas Transmission Co, Universal Ensco, Pipeline, Compressor Stations, Expansion, Pipeline, Compression, Construction, USA, USA, USA, USA
Kern River Gas Transmission Company
Kern River Gas Transmission Company, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, operates an interstate natural gas pipeline extending from the oil and gas producing fields of southwestern Wyoming, through Utah and Nevada, to the San Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield, California. Kern River’s system totals approximately 1,700 miles of 36- and 42-inch diameter steel pipe. Kern River utilizes 12 automated compressor stations spread across four states. The compressor units at these stations have a total system compression of approximately 384,220 horsepower. The pipeline currently has a design capacity of 2.17 billion cubic feet per day. Kern River's fully automated real-time pipeline is controlled from the gas control center in Salt Lake City. Kern River's gas controllers can monitor what is flowing through the pipeline at the exact time it is flowing. Kern River is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy.
Revision Date: 10/17/2016
Tags: 211111 - Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction 原油和天然气开采, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Kern River Gas Transmission Co, Compressor Stations, Pipeline, Construction, Expansion, Pipeline, Compression, USA, USA, USA, USA
South Coast Air Quality Management District sets plan to control NOx from 17,000 small sources
Fifteen stationary source measures and 15 mobile source measures, anticipated to be adopted and implemented in the next 10 to 15 years will assist in attainment of the 8-hour ozone standard by 2031 together with CARB’s measures and reductions from federal sources. Twelve stationary source measures target NOx reductions that are further grouped into measure types: co-benefits from climate programs, incentive measures, additional stationary sources measures, and other measures. Three stationary source measures focus on limited, strategic VOC reductions and four additional measures have corresponding VOC reductions from other ozone or PM measures. SCAQMD’s mobile source measures include one emission growth management measure and 14 mobile source measures that are further grouped into four facility-based mobile source measures, five on-road and four off-road source measures, and one incentive program measure. Section 182(e)(5) of the CAA allows “extreme” ozone areas to include measures in their Plan that rely on the development of new technology or advancement of existing technology. These are sometimes referred to as black box measures. The 8-hour ozone measures in the 2016 AQMP specify current opportunities for emission reductions and thus are designed to reduce the reliance on the Section 182(e)(5) commitments in the 2007 AQMP NOx Combustion Sources Equipment # of Units A 372 Boilers, 2,511 Dryers 218 Flares , 175 Furnaces , 753 Heaters ,770 Incinerators . 192 Ovens 174 Stationary ICEs , 12,928 Turbines
Revision Date: 8/11/2016
Tags: South Coast Air Quality Management District, NOx, Regulation, Air Pollution Control, USA
A Wireless Vibration Monitoring System
This article is a case study of the installation of a wireless vibration monitoring system installed as part of a predictive maintenance program at Southern California Edison’s Mountainview combined cycle generating facility in Redlands, California. The system was installed on all critical pumps, compressors and motor drives as well as water treatment equipment. Difficult to reach gas turbine enclosure blowers were also included in the system.
Revision Date: 9/4/2015
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, ITT Corporation, Vibration, Power Engineering, USA
Gas Turbine NOx Reduction Retrofit
Chevron’s Eastridge Cogeneration Plant near Bakersfield, California, produces steam for thermally enhanced oil recovery and electricity to the grid. To meet regional NOx emissions rules, two existing gas turbines needed the addition of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) for NOx control. This paper discusses the retrofit process from beginning to end.
Revision Date: 8/19/2015
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Chevron, Peerless Manufacturing, SCR, Catalyst, Ammonia, Retrofit Technology, Cost, DeNOx, USA
Align SCR Start/Stop Sequence with GT Fast-Start Sequence
The gas turbines at the Turlock Almond Plant in California were designed for 10-minute start capability, but sub-controls for the emission reduction systems were not. This case study reviews necessary changes that were made to the controls in the Ovation balance-of-plant distributed control system (DCS).
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Distributed Control System, SCR, Fast Start, Startup, Combined Cycle Journal, USA
Electric Fuel Control Valve Streamlines Plant Operations
A Frame 6B-powered cogen plant in California was plagued with fuel-gas valve problems, usually requiring at least a man-shift’s worth of work each outage to disassemble, clean seats/plugs, and reassemble. One solution is to reheat the fuel gas to above the dew point (120-130F) in between the valves, but this is considered far from ideal. The better solution proved to be replacing the original valve with a “smart” electric control valve in the same location as the original and a separate solenoid-operated stop/isolation valve about 6 ft upstream—just outside and below the turbine enclosure.
Revision Date: 5/28/2015
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Fuel System, Valve, Maintenance, Combined Cycle Journal, USA
Are Flexible Generation Plants Performing as Expected?
This article reviews the performance of the Siemens Flex-Plant installed at the Lodi Energy Center in Lodi, California. Designed to be highly flexible, fast-ramping and fast-cycling to complement renewable power generation, the facility experienced 380 starts over the two-plus year period from November 2012 to January 2015. The consensus is that the facility has lived up to expectations, although operational and maintenance costs are higher than for a typical combined cycle plant.
Revision Date: 4/2/2015
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Siemens, Gas Turbine, FlexPlant, Performance, Power Magazine, USA
Mitch prepared a presentation on Hot SCR System at Marsh Landing.
Revision Date: 3/20/2015
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Kiewit, SCR, Air Pollution Control, USA
Gas Turbine Technologies for the Transition
About 60 GW of coal-fired generation in the U.S. will be retired by 2020 and about 35 GW of nuclear capacity will be retired by 2025, according to recent projections by Black & Veatch. Much of that capacity will be replaced with power produced by low-cost, cleaner-burning natural gas. This article reviews the installation of Siemens new FlexPlant technology at the El Segundo Energy Center in California and GE’s new H-class turbines at the Riviera Beach Energy Center in Florida.
Revision Date: 2/4/2015
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, GE, Siemens, H-Class, FlexPlant, Gas Turbine, Market, Power Engineering, USA, USA
CEMS for Calabas Landfill Gas by Len Richter, Cisco - Hot Topic Hour April 17, 2014
Cilsco supplied the CEMS for this California land fill gas project which uses solar turbines. NOx is 7 ppm and CO is 3 ppm
Revision Date: 4/15/2014
Tags: 562212 - Solid Waste Landfill , 221118 - Other Electric Power , Cisco, Solar Turbines, Analyzer - Nox, Continuous Emissions Monitor, Nox Monitoring, Monitoring, USA
MPR Repowers NRG Long Beach Generation Facility
In December 2006, NRG initiated an emergency re-powering project to restore four of seven idle combustion turbines by the summer peak generation period. MPR, as Project Engineer, completed the project in 3.5 months.
Revision Date: 4/7/2014
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, MPR, Gas Turbine, Repower, USA
Cost and Value of Water Use at Combined-Cycle Power Plants
This study compared water requirements, plant and cooling system capital and operating costs, and plant output and efficiency between plants equipped with wet and dry cooling. Comparisons were made for 500 MW, gas-fired, combined-cycle power plants at four sites, typical of environmental conditions in California. Results of the analysis include: • the use of dry cooling reduces plant water requirements by approximately 2,000 to 2,500 acre-feet per year, • The associated costs are: − increased plant capital cost of approximately $8 million to $27 million, or about 5% to 15% of the total plant cost, − potential reduction of energy production by about 13,000–56,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year (1% to 2% of the total), − capacity reduction on hot days of 13 to 23 MW (4% to 6% of total), and − potential annual revenue reduction of about $1.5 to $3.0 million (1% to 2% of total)
Revision Date: 12/31/2013
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, California Energy Commission, Dry Cooling, Wet Cooling, Schematic, Cost, Cooling, Dry Cooling, Wet Cooling, USA