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EPC Project
- 70 MW Solar Power Generating Facility
Solargenix Energy
Boulder City, NV
Nevada Solar One has selected Lauren
Engineers & Constructors as the EPC contractor to build
a 70 MW power generating facility in Boulder City, Nevada
- the largest-capacity solar thermal plant to be built in
the last 15 years and the third-largest in the world. The
project will use the latest in alternative fuel technology
from Solargenix Energy, Inc. Upon project completion, the
plant will consist of a Power Block area and a 400-acre field
of mirror arrays that will focus the heat of the desert sun
into a heat transfer fluid system. Estimated completion date
is the second quarter of 2007. |
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EPC Project – 225
MW Combined Cycle
Black Hills
Corporation
Las Vegas, Nevada
Lauren Engineers & Constructors was awarded a contract
for the engineering, procurement, and construction of an additional
225MW of generation capacity to Black Hills’ Las Vegas
Cogeneration II Power Plant. Scope of work included four LM
6000 gas turbine generators in combined cycle, two 28 MW steam
turbine generators, four once-thru heat recovery steam generators,
gas turbine inlet chilling systems and all required balance
of plant equipment. |
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EPC Project - Five Unit
Simple-Cycle Power Facility
Old
Dominion Electric Cooperative
Gordonsville, VA
Lauren was responsible for the greenfield installation of
4 dual fuel GE 7EA's and 1 dual fuel GE 7FA combustion turbine.
Project scope also included fuel unloading and storage facility,
gas conditioning equipment, startup and commissioning and
plant building.
14 month schedule from award to commercial operation. |
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EPC Project
- Water Treatment System
LS
Power, LLC
Batesville, Mississippi
Lauren Engineers & Constructors was responsible for the
engineering, procurement and construction of a 5,500,000 gpd
pre-treatment system for plant cooling and de-mineralized
water at the LS Power, LLC Batesville Energy Plant. The basis
of the design was a Kruger clarifier system that included
coagulation, chemical injection, maturation and settling.
An Ortex belt press was supplied to dry and handle sludge
produced in the process. The work included design and construction
of civil works, mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation
systems. |
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General Contractor -
550 MW Combined Cycle
Dominion
Energy
Dumfries, Virginia
Lauren Engineers & Constructors was the General Contractor
for the installation of a 550 MW combined cycle power plant.
Project consisted of 2 GE 7FA combustion turbines, two heat
recovery steam generators, one 200 MW steam turbine, one 8
cell cooling tower, water treatment facility, one 2 million
gallon demineralized water storage tank, one 2.25 million
gallon fuel oil storage tank, fuel unloading facility, 3 GSU
transformers, all underground ductbanks and utilities, 96"
circulating water system, piping river water intake pump system,
and final site work/roads. The project was located in an existing
coal fired power plant facility. Project was a ground up installation
through start-up and commissioning. |
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General Contractor
- Erect Heat Recovery Steam Generators
ABB
Combustion Engineering Systems
Midlothian, Texas
Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. erected four (4)
ABB CE 1,100,000 pound per hour dual-pressure HRSG's for American
National Power's Midlothian, Texas plant. Scope of work included
all Section I ASME code work, supports, access structures,
inlet and outlet duct work, stacks, SCR's, instrumentation
and electrical associated with the HRSG's. |
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Engineering & Procurement
- Lignite-Fired Power Plant
San
Miguel Electric Cooperative
San Miguel,
TX
Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. was responsible
for all design and procurement of this green field, single
unit lignite-fired power plant for the San Miguel Electric
Cooperative. The plant burns Texas lignite and is located
at the mine mouth. The plant has a generating capacity of
450 MW. The back end environmental control equipment includes
an electrostatic precipitator, SO2 scrubber and flue gas desulfurization
waste treatment system. The plant is designed for zero discharge
and is recognized for its low $ cost per KW and high availability.
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Engineering & Procurement
- Coal-Fired Power Plant
American
Electric Power
Vernon, TX
Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc was responsible for
all design and procurement of this green field, single unit
Power River Basin coal-fired plant for American Electric Power.
The plant has a generating capacity of 750 MW. The back end
environmental control equipment includes an electrostatic
precipitator and SO2 scrubber. The plant was the first to
be controlled by a fully integrated DCS system and set a record
for lowest $ cost per KW for a coal fired plant built with
a SO2 scrubber in the 1980's. |
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Engineering & Procurement
Randle W. Miller Power Plant, Units 4 & 5
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.
Palo Pinto, Texas
Lauren Engineers & Constructors was responsible for all
design, procurement and construction management for this plant.
The project included two Westinghouse 501D dual fuel simple
cycle gas turbines, and water injection for NOx control. |
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Engineering Project
- Holden Power Project
Associated
Electric Cooperative, Inc. / Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
Holden, Missouri
Lauren Engineers & Constructors designed site work, concrete
structures, plant buildings, balance of plant mechanical systems
and balance of plant electrical systems for three simple cycle
Siemens V84.2 combustion turbines. |
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Engineering Subcontractor
Sewell Creek Station, Units 11,12 ,21 & 22
Oglethorpe Power Corp. / Siemens Westinghouse
Power Corp.
Cedar Town, Georgia
Lauren Engineers & Constructors was the engineering subcontractor
on the Siemens Westinghouse EPC team. Lauren’s scope
of work included design of site work, concrete structures,
balance of plant mechanical systems and balance of plant electrical
systems for the installation of two simple cycle Siemens V84.2
combustion turbines units and two simple cycle Siemens V84.3
combustion turbines. |
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DCS Upgrade
American Electric Power
Northeast
Power Station
Oologah, Oklahoma
Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. performed a DCS
upgrade and mechanical modifications at the Northeast Power
Station. Scope of work involved integrating the control systems
of the existing gas-fired power station and two new combined
cycle units. |
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New Substation &
Transmission Lines
LS Power,
LLC
Batesville, Mississippi
Lauren Engineers and Constructors, Inc. was responsible for
the design and construction of a new 161/230 kV substation
and transmission lines for an 834MW merchant power plant located
in Mississippi. Scope of work included design and installation
of eight 161 kV overhead lines for connections to plant GSU
and Auxiliary Transformers, two 161 kV transmission lines
to interconnect with a TVA substation and one 230 kV transmission
line to interconnect with an Entergy substation. Design and
installation of the substation includes thirteen 161 kV circuit
breakers, eighteen 161 kV disconnect switches, four 240/320/400
MVA 161-230 kV auto-transformers, rigid bus systems rated
161kV and 230 kV, control building, AC and DC auxiliary power
systems, protective relay panels for substation and transmission
line protection, and a SCADA RTU system. |
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