Fuel Tech, Inc. (FTEK) Lands $2.6M in Orders from Chinese Utilities for ULTRA Nitrogen Oxide Reduction Systems, Anticipates More Orders

Fuel Tech, the Warrenville, Illinois-headquartered cleantech, advanced engineering, and proprietary technologies firm, which has developed a fully-integrated capital projects business and specialty chemicals business between their Air Pollution Control technologies on the one hand and proprietary FUEL CHEM® processes on the other, announced reception today of two contracts in China for the company’s proprietary ULTRA™ system, valued at some $2.6M.

The company has built a solid reputation around the world for a steadfast commitment to pushing the envelope in emissions and process optimization for the utility/industrial space. Both the capital projects end of the business and the specialty chemicals end derive great benefit from FTEK’s unique outcome-based chemical injection methodologies, which employ precise concentrations injected into key combustion unit locations.

Both of the awards announced today come from new utility companies, the first looking to upgrade units at two of their small and one of their medium-sized coal fired operations with nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction technology, the second looking to implement similar upgrades across four medium-sized coal fired units. Delivery on the first and larger of the two awards will occur post haste over the next four quarters as the units are retrofitted, with the second award being serviced with hardware delivery in Q4 this year.

Fuel Tech’s ingenious ULTRA technology achieves extremely effective, highly selective catalytic reduction of NOx via the safe, on-site conversion of urea to the ammonia reagent used, thus eliminating all of the hazardous material handling concerns typically associated with anhydrous or aqueous ammonia. No worries about transporting the stuff, no worries about handling it. We are talking point of use generation and application here, taking FTEK’s proprietary FUEL CHEM technology and doing the same thing the company has done for some 110 combustion units to date in the customizable FUEL CHEM program, showing the technology’s capacity to revolutionize burning the full gamut of inputs from coal and heavy oil, to biomass and municipal waste.

FTEK has a whole slew of NOx reduction implementations available, ranging from low NOx burners and over-fire air systems, to controlling NOx in the post-combustion stage. Systems like NOxOUT® and HERT™ Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) offer powerful process end caps for NOx flooring and with Advanced Selective Catalytic Reduction (ASCR™) technologies like NOxOUT CASCADE®, ULTRA™, and NOxOUT-SCR®, it is no wonder that today Fuel Tech is seen as a big dog in the hunt to reduce NOx, with over 700 installations worldwide across the gamut of inputs (including natural gas).

Chairman, President, and CEO of FTEK, Douglas G. Bailey, called it a triumph of the ULTRA technology, which has been making substantial waves around the world, with major resonance coming out of China in recent years. Bailey noted the considerable uptick in bid requests being generated by China for the company’s systems and how the implementation of selective catalytic reduction technologies was consequent with the PRC’s 12th Five-Year Plan. Bailey touted the revolutionary capabilities of the company’s systems for allowing operators to obtain environmentally sustainable vectors without compromising energy and processed materials output, asserting that Fuel Tech will continue to take a dominant, leadership role in the sector as the company’s proven cutting-edge solutions for air pollution control and process optimization, as well as their advanced engineering services, see increased uptake in China and elsewhere.

The FUEL CHEM tech is really quite impressive and the articulate application of chemicals to yield greater efficiency, reliability, and fuel flexibility are just icing on the squeaky clean environmental profile cake. The level of control over build ups like fouling, slagging, and opacity, as well as corrosion and the general operating problems caused by ammonium bisulfate, carbon dioxide, NOx, particulate matter (PM2.5), and sulfur trioxide, are a godsend to operators. One of the big secrets to FTEK’s success is the in-house expertise in high-end data visualization software environments and computational fluid dynamics modeling. This level of technical expertise, combined with the overall competency of personnel (over one quarter of the full-time staff holds advanced degrees), has resulted in a powerful mix of services and solutions. From providing physical devices and computational modeling services for energy generation and industrial applications (things like flue gas distribution and mixing), to airflow and coal flow testing, as well as boiler tuning, the combustion optimization offerings available to customers alone make FTEK a compelling selection for practical, technical solutions to the common optimization/emission concerns prominent today.

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