The demand for clean, efficient energy in Canada has never been greater. With offices in Alberta and Ontario, Bantrel is ideally suited to meet the rising need for power in this country.
Together with our parent company Bechtel, we've been a global leader in the design and construction of fossil- and nuclear-fueled power plants. Today, we are ready to play a major role in building
new electrical capacity across Canada including the next generation of nuclear facilities
and a variety of conventional power production facilities.
Bantrel specializes in co-generation and natural gas-fired power plants. Together with Bechtel, over the past 50 years we have completed more than 440 fossil-fired power plant units, 150 nuclear generating units, 50 coal gasification projects, 40 independent power/cogeneration plants, and 19 fluidized bed boilers.
Part of Bantrel's engineering services is to provide our clients with the latest and best available technological solutions. We coordinate our efforts with Bechtel's Fossil Technology Group, which specializes in cycle optimization, boiler technology, turbine technology, emissions controls, electrical and control systems, environmental technologies and other related technologies.
We have the ability to deliver any power generation project on a turnkey
basis, including design, build and startup commissioning.
Nearly 20% of Canada's electricity is produced by coal. According to Natural Resources Canada, our country has over eight billion tonnes of proven coal reserves - storing more energy than our oil, natural gas and oilsands combined.
Energy policy makers worldwide view coal as an important and strategic energy resource, one that is essential to maintaining world energy security at an economically competitive price. Coal's environmental impacts are the primary challenge for our industry. Bantrel is committed to the ongoing quest to reduce the environmental footprint of power production through the development of Clean Coal Technology. As a result, we're working with our clients to build a way to clean up the coal-fired generation of electricity and further reduce emissions. Clean coal technology can form the basis for a new source of hydrogen, replacing, over time, our current dependence on natural gas reforming. Chemicals, feedstock, and other by-products add to the value proposition of future power plants enabled by clean coal technology.
Nuclear power provides CO2-free power generation and electricity transport that is cleaner, safer and more economic. Since the earliest commercial nuclear reactors a half-century ago, our parent company Bechtel has played a pivotal role in every phase of the industry's development, having designed and/or built more than half of the nuclear power plants in the United States. Bantrel offers a complete selection of services, including plant recovery support, plant license renewal, steam generator replacement, and new nuclear generation.
Bantrel has the technical resources and experience for gas power
projects that include gas turbine, steam turbine, and heat recovery
steam generator technologies. Our team of experienced engineers have been
involved in studies, front-end engineering, design, build, commissioning and start-up,
and permitting and regulatory services for plants ranging in size from
60 MW to 674 MW. Our scope of work has also included the installation of
transformers and the respective connections to power grids, full integration of
controls and auxiliaries with adjacent production facilities, generator installation,
and tie-ins and offsites.
The traditional approach to thermal generation in North America is undergoing radical reassessment, driven by an increased commitment by governments to reduce emissions. Less efficient coal-fired plants are being decommissioned, retrofitted for cleaner operation, converted to cleaner fuels, or replaced by new and cleaner combustion techniques such as high efficiency gas-fired combined cycle plants.
IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) projects are being given more consideration.
IGCC technology offers a clean, efficient option for
producing electricity from coal and other low-cost fuels. As well as producing electricity,
gasification technologies can co-produce (also known as poly-generation) steam, hydrogen,
and other products such as ammonia and methanol. Gasification offers superior performance
in power generation, as well as an innate ability to provide a means of CO2 capture with
only minor additional cost.