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Baldwin
Location: IL
Operator: Dynegy
Configuration: 1 X 623 MW, 2 X 635 MW
Operation: 1970-1975
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: WH, GE
EPC: Sargent & Lundy, Baldwin Associates
Quick facts: This plant was originally built for and operated by Illinois
Power. As part of this project, a 2,018ac perched cooling lake was built
by constructing an 8mi levee on the Kaskaskia River and dredging out a
section of bottomland. Most of the lake is maintained by the state and
operated as a fishery resource and wildllfe habitat. The plant has two
cyclone boiler units with SCR and a tangential boiler which were used for
a demonstration of an online boiler and pollution control equipment
optimization system developed by NeuCo Inc. The $45mo project cost about
$19mn of which 45% was paid by the US Dept of Energy.
Photograph courtesy of Dynegy
Posted 10 Aug 2008 |
Cahokia
Location: IL
Operator: AmerenUE
Configuration: 3 X 30 MW, 1 X 50 MW, 2 X 75 MW
Operation: 1923-1937 (ret 1976)
Fuel: bituminous coal, oil
Boiler supplier: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: Cahokia was an early "superpower" plant
and at completion was the largest power station in the Mississippi Valley.
The brick structure was built on a 52ac site and rested on concrete piles
driven to hard gravel 30ft below the river bed of the Mississippi. The
265ft stacks are 21ft in top diameter. Cahokia was the first power plant
designed to use pulverized Illinois coal and late in life was converted to
oil firing. Twenty-nine submarine cables carried electricity to St. Louis.
Union Electric sold the property in 1979.
Photograph by Nikon 66 (flickr)
Posted 18 Apr 2007 |
Crawford 7&8
Location: IL
Operator: Midwest Generation LLC
Configuration: 1 X 239 MW, 1 X 358 MW
Operation: 1958-1961
Fuel: bituminous coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: CE
T/G supplier: GE, Westinghouse
EPC: Sargent & Lundy
Quick facts: This plant is located on a 72ac site in the Little Village
section of Chicago. The first unit at Craford went online in 1924. The
plant was one of a group acquired by Edison Mission in Dec 1999. Crawford
is an evaluation site for new flue-gas, mercury control systems.
Photograph by Youth
Lab 2007 (flickr)
Posted 20 Sep 2008 |
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Dallman
Location: IL
Operator: Springfiled City Water, Light and Power
Configuration: 2 X 90 MW, 1 X 207 MW
Operation: 1968-1978
Fuel: bituminous coal, biomass
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: Westinghouse, GE
EPC: Burns & McDonnell
Quick facts: All thee units were retrofit with Lurgi SCR systems in May
2003 at a cost of $76mn. Units 1&2 are served by a Lurgi wet
limestone FGD system added in 1990 while Unit-3 has an FGD from Research
Cottrell built in 1980. Small quantities of outdated seed corn
provided by Eco Logic Services is burned in Units 1&2. A new 200-MW unit
at Dallman is planned for service in 2010.
Photograph by Stephen
B Davis (flickr)
Posted 15 Mar 2006 |
Fisk 19
Location: IL
Operator: Midwest Generation LLC
Configuration: 1 X 374 MW
Operation: 1959
Fuel: subbituminous coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: CE
T/G supplier: Allis Chalmers
EPC: Bechtel
Quick facts: Fisk is said to be the first public utility power plant
entirely operated with steam turbines. In 1902, B&W supplied eight
508-hp steam boilers, rated at 180 psig and 530°F, for Commonwealth
Edison. Capacity was 5 MW each. The 44ac site is within the Chicago city
limits and the unit is directly connected to the ComEd 13 kV transmission
system. The station also includes a 110,000 lb/hr gas-fired auxiliary
boiler that supplies station heating requirements when the main boiler is
offline.
Photograph courtesy of
Power
Posted 3 Mar 2007 |
Kincaid
Location: IL
Operator: Kincaid Generation
Configuration: 2 X 660 MW
Operation: 1967
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: Westinghouse
EPC: Sargent & Lundy
Quick facts: Commonwealth Edison began
planning for Kincaid at a new minemouth site in 1963. In 30 yrs of operation, the station burned over 65mn tons of coal from
Peabody Coal’s Mine 10. Kincaid was switched to PRB coal in 1995 and, in
Feb 1998, Commonwealth Edison sold the plant to Dominion Resources.
Photograph courtesy of Kincaid
Generation LLC
Posted 13 Mar 2003 |
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Pearl
Location: IL
Operator: Continental Cooperative Services
Configuration: 1 X 22 MW
Operation: 1966
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Stanley
Quick facts: The Pearl power station was built by Soyland Power Coop at a
site on the Illinois River.
Photograph courtesy of
Menard Electric Ccoperative
Posted 19 Aug 2006 |
Powerton 5&6
Location: IL
Operator: Midwest Generation LLC
Configuration: 2 X 800 MW
Operation: 1972-1975
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: B&W
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Sargent & Lundy
Quick facts: The first units at Powerton went online in 1928. The
plant's 1,400ac cooling lake is managed by the Illinois Dept of Natural
Resources and is a popular local fishing spot.
Photograph courtesy of Edison International
Posted 27 Dec 2004 |
Will County
Location: IL
Operator: Midwest Generation LLC
Configuration: 2 X 188 MW, 1 X 300 MW, 1 X 600 MW
Operation: 1955-1963
Fuel: subbituminous coal, oil
Boiler supplier: B&W, CE
T/G supplier: GE, WH
EPC: Sargent & Lundy, Stone & Webster
Quick facts: Will County was one of seven plants acquired in Dec 1999 by
Midwest Generation from Commonwealth Edison for $4.8bn. Unit-4 was one
of the first three 500 MW+ units built in the world.
Photograph courtesy of Power
Posted 19 Dec 2004 |
