Original equipment manufacturer
Altrad Babcock Ltd
(formerly Doosan Babcock Ltd.) is part of Altrad.
It is a power sector
OEM
, construction, upgrade, and after-market services company that offers specialist services and technologies to the
fossil-fired power
generation,
nuclear power
generation, and
oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
. AB's main headquarters are in
Crawley
,
England
. European headquarters are in
Renfrew
,
Scotland
. The company has manufacturing facilities in the
UK
,
Germany
,
India
,
Vietnam
and
South Korea
, and 17 offices around the world.
[1]
The company began as
Babcock & Wilcox Ltd
founded in 1891 by the American
Babcock & Wilcox
company. The boiler manufacturing and energy services division of Babcock International were later sold off to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding of Japan. After acquiring it from Mitsui in 2006, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction sold the company to Altrad in 2022.
After the purchase by Altrad was completed in September 2022, DB was renamed Altrad Babcock.
[2]
Company products and services
[
edit
]
Thermal
[
edit
]
Doosan Babcock provides a range of through-life services to the thermal power industry, including project design and construction, plant maintenance, asset integrity, shutdown/turnaround management, plant life extension and upgrades.
The company provides OEM boilers to power plants burning traditional and renewable fuels, plus a range of firing technologies, subcritical or supercritical systems and unit sizes from 100MW to 660MW and above. It has a license agreement with
Harbin Boiler
, the largest boiler maker in China. Doosan Babcock is the developer of the thermal OxyCoalTM
oxy-fuel
boiler, used at the
Vattenfall Oxyfuel pilot plant in Schwarze Pumpe
in Germany. Oxy-fuel boilers use pure oxygen rather than air as the primary oxidant to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.
[3]
The company is active in the
carbon capture and storage
sector and was responsible for designing, building and commissioning the UK's largest carbon capture pilot plant in
Ferrybridge
, West Yorkshire, which began operations in November 2011. The project, which uses the company's advanced amine scrubbing technology is a collaboration between
SSE
, Doosan Babcock and
Vattenfall
, and is the first of its size to be integrated into a live power plant in the UK.
[4]
Nuclear
[
edit
]
Doosan Babcock has been a major supplier of specialist services to the nuclear industry for around 60 years, since it built the steam raising plant for the world's first commercial nuclear power station,
Calder Hall UK
, in 1956.
[5]
Approximately 3500
Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP)
offer
engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)
, plant maintenance and
decommissioning
services to the nuclear power industry in the form of specialist support teams, bespoke projects and turnkey solutions. The company has a presence at every nuclear power generating site in the UK.
[6]
As a specialist provider of nuclear decommissioning services, Doosan Babcock has managed decommissioning projects at sites around the UK, including
Sellafield
,
[7]
Faslane
[8]
and
Bradwell
.
[9]
The company offers techniques and processes for the removal of radioactive waste and the remediation of nuclear facilities. It is at the forefront of waste encapsulation technologies.
[10]
Oil, gas and petrochemical
[
edit
]
Doosan Babcock provides project design and construction, plant maintenance, asset integrity assessment, shutdown/turnaround management, plant life extension and upgrade services to the global oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
The company's oil, gas and petrochemical clients include
BP
,
Equinor
,
Shell
, Essar, Total,
ConocoPhillips
,
ExxonMobil
,
SABIC
and Nippon Gohsei.
[1]
Technologies
[
edit
]
Doosan Babcock develops and manufactures proprietary safety assessment tools such as the pipe vibration meter,
[11]
a hazardous area logger and a pipe reeling test rig, and can repair and replace plant components in large workshops in Europe and Asia.
[1]
The company also deploys a range of asset integrity assessment technologies, which include non-destructive testing, laser 3D scanning and remote visual inspection.
Safety record and awards
[
edit
]
Doosan Babcock achieved eight million man-hours without a
lost time incident (LTI)
at
INEOS Grangemouth
in Scotland and 10 million man-hours without an LTI on an emissions-reduction project at
Castle Peak Power Station
in Hong Kong.
[1]
In 2013 the company was presented with the ExxonMobil Fawley Site Contractor Safety Award and the British Safety Council's Sword of Honour
[12]
for best practices in Health and Safety.
In 2012 Doosan Babcock completed over 36,000 field welds with a 99.88% success rate.
[1]
The Grangemouth site in the east of Scotland, recently achieved 12 million man hours without a lost time incident (LTI). This helped them achieve the prestigious British Safety Council's Sword of Honour in 2017, which was awarded to them in London.
History
[
edit
]
Babcock & Wilcox Limited works,
Renfrew
circa 1919
The US
Babcock & Wilcox Company
opened an office in Glasgow, Scotland in 1881. B & W commenced boiler making with and in the Singer Manufacturing Company works at Clydebank, initially using components shipped from the US.
In 1891, Babcock & Wilcox formed a British company named
Babcock & Wilcox Ltd
.
[13]
The board members include renowned Scottish structural engineer
Sir William Arrol
and Andrew Stewart, of the Lanarkshire-based steel tubemakers A & J Stewart and Menzies, subsequently
Stewarts & Lloyds
. A manufacturing facility at Renfrew, Scotland based on the existing Porterfield Foundry was established in 1895
In 1956, Babcock & Wilcox supplied the steam raising plant for the world's first commercial nuclear power station,
Calder Hall
in the UK.
[6]
Babcock Power Ltd established in 1979; later renamed Babcock Energy Ltd. Babcock Energy Ltd was floated on the stock exchange in 1982, becoming Babcock International PLC. In 1987 Babcock International entered a short-lived merger with
FKI Electricals
, forming
FKI Babcock PLC
. In 1989, FKI Babcock PLC demerged to form
Babcock International Group PLC
and
FKI PLC
.
[14]
In 1995, a 75% stake in Babcock's boiler manufacturing and energy services activities (known as Babcock Energy Ltd) was sold to
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
of Japan, to become Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd.
[15]
Babcock Energy Ltd provides the steam generators for the British
Sizewell B
nuclear power station.
Mitsui sold Babcock Energy Ltd to
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction
, a subsidiary company of the
Doosan Group
of South Korea in 2006. The UK company is renamed Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd.
[16]
In 2010, Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd renamed
Doosan Power Systems Ltd
, then in 2012 renamed Doosan Power Systems UK Ltd. In 2013, Doosan Power Systems UK Ltd renamed as Doosan Babcock Ltd. The same year Doosan Babcock Ltd invested £20 million in UK test facility and research and development activities. New offices opened in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
[1]
References
[
edit
]
External links
[
edit
]
|
---|
Subsidiaries
| | |
---|
Products
| |
---|
Others
| |
---|
|