Tampa Electric Company

TECO’s Big Bend Unit 4

702 North Franklin Street

Tampa, Florida 33602

Challenge:  Unit 4 at TECO’s Big Bend Station due to its age was in need of a partial rebuild to meet its emission compliance requirements.  The two precipitators in a vertical arrangement made for a challenging demolition and installation effort during the constraints of a limited outage.

Southern Environmental’s Solution:

SEI provided a design, supply and install solution to upgrade the first two of a five fields in a dual chamber system.  The upgraded fields included SEI’s S3 – Synergy Design plus new electromagnetic rappers, access doors and key interlock system.  Maintenance services were applied to fields three, four and five which included a major overhaul of the tumbling hammer system.