■ 25 years of experience in atmospheric environment facilities and successful construction of environmental facilities at Boryeong Unit No. 3 led to decision to sign contract
■ New high-efficiency desulfurization facility expected to eliminate over 98.86% of sulfur oxides
■ Increase in elimination efficiency of sulfur oxides expected to contribute to government fine dust measures
Sae-A STX Entech (www.sae-astx.com), an industrial plant business affiliate of Global Sae-A (CEO Kim Ki-myung), recently signed a contract with the Korea Midland Power Company, one of the top 5 power plants in South Korea, to build a desulfurization facility for the Boryeong Power Plant Unit No. 4. Construction on the project is scheduled to begin December 2022, and will cost approx. 60.5 billion KRW.
This project was given to Sae-A STX Entech after successful upgrades in the past of the Boryeong Power Plant Unit No. 3 environmental facilities (desulfurization, denitrification, dust collectors), which won the ‘Grand Prize for Environmental Facilities’ at the ‘2020 Eco-Friendly Construction Industry Awards’ hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport and the Ministry of Environment. Sae-A STX Entech proved its technical prowess, built on expertise developed over 25 years of environmental facility construction at power plants both home and abroad.
The desulfurization facility contract is part of a project to raise elimination efficiency of sulfur oxides produced from 500MW generation capacity plants to over 98.86%. As part of that endeavor to raise efficiency of the new facility, an absorption tower and zero-leak waste gas heat exchanger has been included to eliminate nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides at the same time. Additionally, there will be instrumentation and control equipment, electrical systems and other facilities built as well.
If domestic coal power plants raise the efficiency of eliminating sulfur oxides from exhaust gases by replacing or upgrading current, deteriorating desulfurization equipment with new, highly-efficient equipment, it is expected to have a positive effect towards special fine dust measures that the government is pursuing. Sae-A STX Entech CEO Ahn Seok Hwan said, “In order to fully support the government’s fine dust reduction measures, not only will we continue to develop atmospheric environmental facilities for power plants, but we will continue efforts on our indoor coal yard project, designed to prevent coal particles produced by outdoor coal yards. We will also continue to grow our ambitions in the chemical power plant and infrastructure sectors, so that momentum for the plant construction industry continues to grow, both at home and abroad.”
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Sae-A STX Entech, the industrial plant business affiliate of Global Sae-A, is fast becoming a global leader in the EPC industry. The company especially has a lot of experience in the eco-friendly facility sector, building air pollution reduction systems for domestic steel and power plants in Pohang, Gwangyang, Dangjin and Boryeong. Sae-A STX Entech has also won contracts for a water treatment plant at the Rumaila oil field in Iraq, the world’s largest oil field, and a flare system to incinerate harmful gases at the West Qurna-2 oil field. Construction has begun on a contract that was signed last May with the Hadong Coal Power Plant to build an indoor coal yard facility with the nation’s first and largest membrane structure, and there are upcoming plans to actively take part in coal yard and environmental facility development projects. Through these efforts Sae-A STX Entech aims to take a leading role in Korea’s atmospheric environment development sector.