As part of the expansion, a third gasifier will be added using GE/Texaco technology.
Associated facilities will be added to the existing gasifiers and new pressure swing absorption and membrane packages will be installed in order to produce 20,000 nominal cubic meters per hour of hydrogen. With the addition of the third train, the total gasification capacity will be 146.5 tonnes per hour. The project is expected to reach mechanical completion by the second quarter of 2009.
In a joint venture Foster Wheeler designed and built the original IGCC plant, which transforms refinery residues into synthesis gas to produce more than 550 MW.
Completed in 2000, this was the first IGCC plant in the world to use asphalt as a feedstock.
The terms of the new contract were not disclosed.
