SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- COAL-FIRED LABORATORY SCALE COMBUSTOR
- Notice Date
- 9/1/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 3610 Collins Ferry Road (MS-I07) P.O. Box 880 Morgantown, WV 26507-0880
- ZIP Code
- 26507-0880
- Solicitation Number
- DE-RQ26-05NT500908
- Response Due
- 9/21/2005
- Archive Date
- 10/21/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SUBJECT: COAL-FIRED LABORATORY SCALE COMBUSTOR DESC: The U.S. Department of Energy???s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA intends to award a purchase order on a sole-source basis to Energy & Environmental Research Center (ERRC), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND for the purchase for a Coal-Fired Laboratory Scale Combustor to include the following specifications: NETL is looking to purchase a pulverized coal-fired laboratory combustion system for mercury and air toxics research. The combustion system must be a complete, fully-functioning system including all components for the: pulverized coal feed system, automated control system, data acquisition system, safety systems, combustion air preheater, main furnace section and convective pass system up to but not including the particulate control device. The combustion system should have a nominal coal firing rate of 4.4 lb coal/hr (2 kg/hr), furnace gas temperatures in the 2732F (1500C) range, coal particle residence times in the high temperature radiant zone of the furnace for a minimum of 1 second, capability to burn all ranks of coal without requiring co-firing of any other fuel, and greater than 99 percent carbon burnout with all ranks of coal without co-firing any other fuel. Methods of providing heat input to satisfy holding heat requirements should be explicitly described in any submitted bid. The system must include a pulverized coal feed system capable of precisely measuring and controlling the coal feed rate. The system must also include a fully integrated automated control system to monitor and control combustion and safety functions as well as full data acquisition capabilities. Automated control system requirements include temperature, pressure, flow, safety monitoring and control instrumentation for: combustion air, fuel supply, cooling water and flue gas parameters including induced draft and baghouse controls. Data acquisition must include these parameters as well as inputs from combustion gas analyzers (DO NOT include gas analyzers in submitted bids). The combustion system must be delivered with complete documentation including detailed design drawings and other detailed design information as well as an operations manual including step-by-step operating and maintenance instructions. In addition to the items listed above, all bids submitted must include: materials of construction of the furnace and all other components, refractory types and thicknesses, dimensions of the furnace and all system components, detailed information and specifications of the pulverized coal feed system, detailed information and specifications of the fully integrated automated control system with data acquisition capabilities. This purchase order is being issued to Energy & Environmental Research Center because NETL researchers in the area of mercury capture require a coal-fired laboratory scale combustor that will generate documented levels of mercury speciation and air toxics for a given coal feed and known operational parameters. Since it is essentially impossible to make accurate theoretical predictions of the extent generated in a laboratory scale coal-fired combustor, it is critical that the combustion system is a proven commercial design that has been operated, with mercury speciation experimental results available in the peer-reviewed literature. The Energy and Environmental Research Center located at the University of North Dakota is the only vendor that can supply a lab scale coal combustor, whose mercury speciation and air toxics performance is documented in the external peer reviewed literature. Theoretical predictions and unsubstantiated claims by other vendors are not sufficient to establish that their combustor can fully satisfy NETL research performance requirements as the unit produced by EERC. All responsible sources may submit a quotation which shall be considered by this agency. All interested firms must respond to DE-RQ26-05NT500908. Offerors shall provide sufficient technical literature, documents, etc., in order for the Government evaluation team to make an adequate technical assessment of the quote as meeting technical acceptability. Therefore, no solicitation will result with this announcement. This award shall be made using FAR 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The North American Industry Classification (NAIC) is 421830. Request for information should be addressed to Mr. Robert L. Mohn, FAX 412-386-5770. The Technical Representative for the above requirement is Mr. Mr. Andrew Karash, 412-386-6062. All bids, proposals, or quotations must be submitted by 5:00 PM Eastern Time, September 21, 2005.
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