DTE – Utah Synfuels
- Owner: DTE Utah Synfuels, LLC
- Project: Upgrading Synfuels Material Handling System
- Location: Price, Utah
- Scope: Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Startup
Project Background
DTE Utah Synfuels, LLC contracted with Roberts & Schaefer Company to design, procure and construct a replacement and upgrade to the material handling systems at its facility in Price, Utah. The purpose of this work was to increase productive capacity to 1.4 million tons of synthetic fuel per year.
The new, upgraded facility was designed to operate 365 days per year, 24 hours per day at 91% availability. Feed conveyors to and from the synfuel plant were sized at 225 tons per hour to assure a continuous supply of coal to the synfuel process plant.
The new system included:
- Runoff contained ground storage for two types of waste coal
- New feed hopper and screening
- Crushing of oversized waste coal
- Sampling of waste coal feed
- Sampling of the final synfuel product
- Storage via radial stacker
- New truck loadout hopper
- All related conveying systems
- Computer process control
- Perimeter ditches, runoff control, sediment entrapment and enlargement of an existing sediment pond.
The new system was constructed during 2003 at an operating plant and was designed to minimize impact to existing operations. The work was completed on time and within budget.