Selected
Reference List
Discussions with end-users have indicated the following:
1) Plugging has been a non-problem. Several of the users have difficult in situ conditions (Basin Electric) with no problems.
2) Maintenance costs have been normally extremely low (<$100/year).
3) Uptimes of +99.99% are normal.
There are many other plants with EMRC Gas Flow Monitors. With enough time EMRC could provide hundreds of references within and outside the utility industry. If you have any questions call at (520) 749-2167 or write MILESRBT@prodigy.net.
Power Plants
Allegheny Power Systems/Black
& Veatch (A&E)*
(all Stations - 34 units)
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
*B&V conducted (early 90's) a study of several gas flow monitor systems at the Allegheny Power Company (3 boilers). The results of this study were reported, and 34 EMRC units were purchased.
Basin Electric Coop
Units - 5-10 (Coal Fired)
Board
of Public Utilities
Units - several (Coal Fired)
Cincinnati
Gas & Electric
Units - 1 (Recent retrofit for Ultrasonic)
Colstrip
Limited Partnership
Rosebud Power Plant
Colstrip, Montana
Units - 1 (Burning Coal Dregs from
Montana Power)
Dayton
Power & Light Company
Aberdeen, Ohio
(all stations)
Dominion
Virginia Power Company
Units - ~45 (Coal Fired)
Dynergy/Baldwin
Energy Complex (Formerly Illinois Power)
Units - 3 (Coal Fired )
Hoosier
Energy / Ratts Station
Units - 2 (Coal Fired)
Illinois
Power
(All Stations)
Decatur, Illinois
Nebraska
Power
Units - ~10 (Coal Fired)
Northern
States Power
Units - 30-35 (Coal Fired)*
* has 24 units on the inlets to their particulate control system
Plains
Electric
Units - 1 (Coal Fired
Refineries
Ametek,
Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
Applied Automation (Integrator to the refining industry)
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Applications have included AMOCO,
Inc. CENEX, Conoco, etc.
Processes include SRU's, FCC's, etc.
BHP Refinery
Oahu, Hawaii
Cenex
Laurel, Montana
(four refinery stacks)
Coastal
Refining
Westville, New Jersey
Conoco, Inc.
Billings, Montana
Boiler & FCC stacks
Dakota Gasification Company
Bismarck, North Dakota
Refinery boiler stack (4 units)
Exxon Refinery
Billings, Montana
Koch Refining Company
St. Paul, Minnesota
Koch has six EMRC Gas Flow Monitors
on a variety of stacks
Little America Refining
Casper, Wyoming
Louisville
Gas & Electric Company (all stations)
Mill Creek Generating Station
Louisville, Kentucky
Mobil Oil Company
Beaumont, Texas
Unit is on a FCC stack Mobil
Oil Company
Navajo Refining
Artesia, New Mexico
Sulfur Recovery Stack (Low Flow)
Phillips Petroleum (3 sites)
Artesia, New Mexico
Chatom, Alabama
Sulfur Recovery Stack
Woods Cross, Utah
Phillips 66 Company
Woods Cross, Utah 84087
Unocal
P.P. & C. Division (Now Tosco)
Carson, California & Wilmington,
California
Unocal has installed and certified
nine EMRC GFM's at its south coast refineries (1994-1995).
W.H.
Hunt Trust Estate (Warren Petroleum)
Near Kildeer, North Dakota
Sulfur Recovery Unit
Chemical Process sources
Glen
Falls Portland Cement
Glen Falls, NY
ASARCO
Helena, MT. and Hayden, AZ
Gas Turbines
Dayton
Power & Light
Dayton, OH
High
Desert Power
Northern California
Elk
Hills
Tupman, California GT
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Yuma Cogeneration
Yuma, AZ