Working in collaboration with Hamon Research-Cottrell (HRC), the company will design, construct and install the new, multi-pollutant control system at Weston Unit 3 using regenerative activated coke technology (ReACT).
Announced in May 2012, the project was approved by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin in April 2013.
The ReACT installation is the first commercial application of this technology in the US, even though its has successfully been used in Japan for several years.
WPS president Charles Cloninger said the project will ensure the viability of Unit 3 to help the company better serve its electric customers into the future.
Commenting on the ReACT technology, Cloninger said, "This single system is designed to significantly remove sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and other emissions from the power plant’s exhaust flow eliminating the need to build separate control systems for each individual emission."
Also supported by URS, the project is anticipated to be operating by the end of 2016.
Fueled by low sulfur coal from Wyomin, Weston Unit 3 began operations in 1981.
