| Oradell, NJ – Power Engineering magazine each year recognizes projects from around the world that set the standard for quality in the worldwide energy industry. In the renewable energy category, the winner was the Lee County (Fla.) Waste to Energy Expansion Project. Burns and Roe was the engineer of record for the project, responsible for the complete design and engineering of the facility.
The annual Power Engineering Projects of the Year awards recognize excellence in design, construction and operation of power generation facilities of different types from across the globe. The Projects of the Year Awards winners were named at a gala awards banquet December 2 at the Rosen Centre Hotel as part of the Power-Gen International Conference and Exhibition and the co-located Nuclear Power International Conference and Exhibition.
The Lee County Waste to Energy Expansion Project is the first new municipal waste combustion facility completed in the United States in more than 10 years. It is also the first such project to be permitted and constructed under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new source performance standards for municipal waste combustion facilities, since they were promulgated in the mid-1990s.
The Waste to Energy Expansion Project recovers approximately 600 kWh from each ton of municipal waste that had been previously placed into a landfill. The facility uses reclaimed water plus the effluent from a nearby wastewater treatment plant for all process water needs. This includes boiler makeup water, an approach that saves millions of gallons of drinkable water each year. The plant also captures a significant amount of ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the post-combustion process, which are sold to the metals marketplace.
Burns and Roe is a privately held, comprehensive engineering, procurement, construction, operations and maintenance organization with specialized expertise in technically complex facilities. With over 1,900 personnel worldwide, Burns and Roe and its affiliated companies serve private and governmental clients in the power, industrial, and government service industries. The firm is a world leader in the markets that it serves. Engineering News-Record consistently ranks Burns and Roe as a top Power Design Firm. Business News-New Jersey has also ranked Burns and Roe as a Top Engineering Firm in the State for the past five years. For more information on Burns and Roe, please contact the Company at (201) 265-2000 or through its website, www.roe.com .
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