LSW is the prime engineering consultant on this project to replace an existing 1.8 MW plant with a nominal 4.5 MW cogeneration plant.

The plant is located within the hospital's existing operational central utilities plant and, as such, is designed to be installed in a manner that minimizes interruptions to the utilities. The cogeneration system also provides emergency power for the hospital's essential equipment electric service branch. This requires construction phasing to install a new dedicated emergency generator plant, prior to decommissioning the existing cogeneration plant, alternating the need for temporary standby power for the duration of construction.

The combustion turbine used for dual role of emergency/cogeneration service will be capable of switching their fuel source form natural gas to fuel oil "on the fly." The system will allow the hospital to function at full capacity (emergency and normal power systems) in the case of a prolonged utility service outage. Emissions for the new equipment will be less than one-sixth that of the existing equipment, on a "per kW generated" basis, using a non-ammonia based catalytic reduction system.

Owner: U.S. Navy, SWDIV and Naval Regional Medical Center
Estimated Construction Cost: $14,000,000
Completion Date: 2003