SPX Corporation recently announced that its Thermal Equipment and Services segment was awarded a contract in September to install a state-of-the-art flue gas discharge system and other upgrades to enhance the coal-fired power plant, jointly owned by Buckeye Power and American Electric Power, located in Brilliant, Ohio.

According to SPX, flue gas discharge technology enables better dispersion of the exhaust plume into the atmosphere, resulting in reduced local ground-level concentrations. Treated flue gases will be conveyed from the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system into the cooling tower through one or two glass-fiber reinforced plastic ducts and discharged into the atmosphere together with the cooling tower plume. This combination of flow allows for improved mixing and updraft into the atmosphere.

"Our flue gas discharge technology can help some new and existing coal-fired plants using natural draft cooling towers to achieve enhanced cooling efficiencies," said Drew Ladau, SPX segment president. "And in some cases it may even potentially reduce costs," he added.

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