Description
Cleco Power, an electric utility company based in Pineville, Louisiana, completed construction of a waste heat recovery energy plant adjacent to a Cabot Chemical plant, a carbon black (a result of the incomplete combustion of heavy petroleum products) facility on the Louisiana Gulf Coast in Franklin, near the Intracoastal Waterway. The new power plant, St. Mary Clean Energy Center, will generate 50-megawatts of electricity by capturing the Cabot plant’s waste heat from exhaust gases, which will power the new utility's turbine generators – all without increasing emissions, including carbon.
Products Used
Confronted with a construction site very close to the Intercostal Highway in Louisiana and a correspondingly high-water table, the project engineers looked to Baldwin Ready-Mix for a solution for the below-grade (5-6 foot depth) concrete structures. Baldwin, a Penetron partner, suggested a concrete mix treated with PENETRON ADMIX SB, an integral crystalline admixture. Using the pre-measured soluble bags, Baldwin Ready Mix added PENETRON ADMIX SB to over 1,000 cubic yards (765 m3) of concrete that was poured for the foundation of the energy plant.
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