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Morgantown Generating Station
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Unit Specifics
| Unit |
Net Summer Capacity |
On-Line Date |
Unit Type |
|
Steam Units |
| Unit 1 |
582 MW |
June 1970 |
Bechtel Corportation |
| Unit 2 |
582 MW |
June 1971 |
Bechtel Corportation |
|
Combustion Units |
| CT 1 |
16 MW |
April 1967 |
Pratt and Whitney |
| CT 2 |
16 MW |
June 1974 |
Westinghouse |
| CT 4 |
54 MW |
1970-71 |
General Electric |
| CT 5 |
54 MW |
1970-71 |
General Electric |
| CT 6 |
54 MW |
1973 |
General Electric |
Stacks
Two Stacks, each 700 ft high
Boilers (2 total)
| Parameter |
Units 1 & 2 (Coal-fired) |
| Erected cost |
$15,373,000 per boiler |
| Type |
Super-critical, balanced draft tangentially
fired with superheater, single reheat and economizer |
| Height |
17 stories |
| Steam capacity |
4,500,000 lb/hr |
| Steam pressure |
3,500 psig |
| Steam temperature - main reheat |
1000 F |
Turbine Generators (2 total)
| Parameter |
Unit 1 |
Unit 2 |
| Erected cost |
$11,623,000 per unit |
$11,956,000 |
| Type |
Single reheat, tandem compound, four-flow LP turbine |
| Manufacturer |
Westinghouse |
General Electric |
| Nameplate rating |
626 MW each |
| Generator voltage |
18,000 volts |
24,000 volts |
| Transmission voltage |
230,000 volts
|
Fuels
| Requirements |
10,000 tons/day coal at full load
42,000 barrels/day No. 6 oil |
| Delivery |
Coal: from Conrail railroad
Oil: from ship to delivery at Steuart Petroleum's Piney Point facility;
then by PEPCO-owned (Steuart owned and maintained) pipeline directly to
station
(Station has capability to receive oil by barge) |
| Storage |
Coal: 700,000 ton capacity pile
Oil: leased storage at Piney Point for 1 million barrels, on-site storage
for 537,200 barrels of No. 6 fuel oil |
Environmental Controls
| Ash collection |
Electrostatic Precipitators |
| Ash storage |
Faulkner Ash Disposal Site |
| NOx control |
None |
| Cooling |
Once-thru system, 1,000,000 gal. per min.;
Discharge to 1,833 ft discharge canal. |
| Cooling towers (Hyperbolic natural draft towers
(2)) |
400 ft high by 374 ft diameter at base
Inlet water temperature 90 F, outlet temperature 120 F
Drift loss: 0.002%
Makeup: 2.5% of flow (evaporation loss, drift, blowdown and leakage taken
from unit 1 discharge)
Cost: $8,000,000 per tower |
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