WHEELABRATOR FRACKVILLE INC.
Located in Frackville, Pennsylvania, the Wheelabrator Frackville cogeneration facility provides dependable, environmentally safe disposal of the anthracite coal mining waste (culm) dumped and abandoned in eastern Pennsylvania, while generating clean, renewable electricity for sale to the local utility. Designed, constructed and operated by Wheelabrator, Wheelabrator Frackville consumes up to 500,000 tons of culm per year. Wheelabrator Frackville generates more than 300 million kilowatt-hours of electricty for sale to the local utility and produces over 60 million pounds of steam for sale to Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution at Frackville.
- GENERAL
- Area Served:
- Eastern Pennsylvania
- Land Reclaimation: 135 acres
- Type of Contract:
- Design, construct, own, operate
- Start-up: 1988
- COMBUSTION SYSTEM
- Type of System:
- Kvaerner Circulation Fluidized Bed
- Operation:
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Turbine/Generator:
- 4 extraction condensing, 56,500 KVA
- Fuel Consumption: 500,000 tons/year of anthracite culm
- Ash Reduction: 350,000 tons
- ENERGY PRODUCTION
- Type of Energy: Electric Power
- Steam Flow to Turbine: 410,000 pounds per hour @ 1300 psig/955*F
- Electric Generating Capacity: 56.5 megawatts
- Cooling System: Mechanical draft cooling tower