Atlantic Electric – BL England Station
- Owner: Atlantic Electric
- Project: Tire Derived Fuel System
- Location: B.L. England Generation Station, Beesleys Point, New Jersey
- Scope: Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Startup and Commissioning
Project Background
Roberts & Schaefer Company was awarded a turnkey contract from Atlantic Electric for engineering, procurement, construction, start–up and commissioning of the tire derived fuel system at Atlantic Electric’s B.L. England Generation Station in Beesleys Point, New Jersey. The system was successfully completed and in operation in 1997.
The tire derived fuel (TDF) system is an auxiliary fuel–handling system for the coal–fired steam generators. Initially, the TDF system supplied one steam generator, but is designed to separately supply the second generator in the future. The TDF is processed and reduced to one–inch pieces at an offsite receiving and processing facility, then delivered to the generating station. 20-ton self–dumping trucks deliver the TDF where it is stored in a 2,400–ton tire chip pile.
The TDF is reclaimed at a dozer trap by mobile equipment and conveyed to the 60–ton capacity live floor hopper. Additionally 50–ton trucks can dump into this hopper. The hopper discharges to a transfer conveyor at 32 TPH for conveying to the screen building. The disc screen discharges the one–inch minus chips to another transfer conveyor to be delivered to the power plant via the existing coal–handling system, which was also upgraded by R&S in 1988. The project included providing the complete TDF control system, including motors, starters, and MCCs, and integrating the controls into the existing PLC–based coal–handling control system.