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Dynalytics
Corp. has had major responsibilities for providing strategic analysis,
due-diligence assistance, and evaluating or providing technically viable,
financially optimum, and environmentally acceptable operating regimes and/or
designs for numerous technology-based projects. The common thread
throughout Dynalytics’
achievements is its integration of economics, environmental and other regulatory
constraints, together with process and operating requirements into a
comprehensive approach. Representative projects include the following.
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A major Chinese / European Joint Venture became embroiled in a
dispute with its international Engineering-Procurement-Construction
contractor about responsibilities for deficient process performance
(capacity, product purities and utility consumption) as well as
construction-related matters for its Synthesis
Gas Plant. This facility provides the hydrogen, carbon monoxide and
oxogas feedstocks for several downstream plants that comprise a large
integrated chemical complex in
China
. Dynalytics
Corp. was retained to join the Joint Venture’s Arbitration Team, and
assigned responsibilities for analyzing the technical and economic issues
related to process design and performance, and providing assistance with framing claims
and responding to counterclaims. Based,
in part, on input from Dynalytics Corp. the dispute ended with a
negotiated settlement.
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Brookhaven
National Laboratory (BNL) is
frequently approached by Independent Power
Producers (IPPs) that wish to propose designing, financing, constructing and
operating a cogeneration plant at its Upton, NY, site. BNL retained Dynalytics
Corp. to advise it as to whether or not it makes strategic, economic,
and technical sense to invest the time and effort necessary to prepare a
detailed Request for Proposals, manage the bidding process, and evaluate the
responses. Dynalytics’
assessment included
considerations of the financial community’s current expectations,
projected economic scenarios for the IPP and for BNL, fuel supply,
reliability, regulatory and environmental issues.
An extensive discussion of the many contractual documents whose terms
would have to be negotiated was also provided.
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Maquarie
Infrastructure Company entered into an
agreement to purchase The Gas Company [of Hawaii] LLC from K1 Ventures
Limited. Dynalytics Corp. was
part of the Black & Veatch due-diligence team for this $238 million
transaction, with specific responsibilities for evaluating the Synthetic Natural
Gas Plant. Dynalytics' Scope-of-Work included an
assessment of the:
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technology used;
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potential
process improvements;
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plant’s operation, reliability, and maintenance practices;
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adequacy of staffing levels and skills;
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Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) practices.
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Front-end
engineering design and economic optimization has been provided for
numerous hydrogen and synthesis gas facilities,
including the 20 million standard cubic feet per day hydrogen plant at the Pacific Resources refinery in Hawaii, the
50 million standard cubic feet
per day of high-temperature reducing-gas (hydrogen + carbon monoxide) production
facility used in iron ore reduction reactors at the Hylsa plant at Monterrey,
Mexico, and an inert gas (argon + nitrogen) production/purification facility for
Waldymetal Femszorasi Rt., Budapest, Hungary. Technical and financial
responsibilities for these projects included:
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supervision
of process and detailed engineering activities, selection of catalysts
for intermediate and final product production and purification;
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supervision
of procurement and construction activities to assure that budgetary and
timetable constraints were being met;
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plant
startup and performance testing to demonstrate that requirements for
product purity, plant capacity and overall process efficiency for
conversion of feedstocks to products were being met.
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Dynalytics’ environmental responsibilities have included acquiring and assessing environmental data,
development and implementation of sound approaches to obtaining
environmental and other permits required for construction and operation of
many large industrial facilities. These
range from chemical plants to utility plants for a variety of corporations,
hospitals and municipalities. Assessments of current and legacy
issues of health and safety performance of industrial facilities,
including investigations of compliance history, accident, lost time and
illness records, insurance claims have been carried out as part of
due-diligence required for acquiring industrial projects.
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Environmental, health and safety services
have been provided
to thirty major United States and multinational Independent Power Project
developers, engineering-procurement-construction firms, equipment vendors,
oil & chemical, and aerospace companies, for fifty-seven major projects
in twenty different countries.
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Within the United States:
managing the initial cogeneration system design and the feasibility/financeability
studies for Northrop Grumman, and then handled environmental matters,
including environmental data acquisition and assessment, Permitting and
Licensing for the joint venture that led to installation of the 49-megawatt
($53 million) cogeneration plant at Northrop Grumman, Bethpage, NY.
This facility produces steam and electricity for Northrop Grumman's
consumption, with any excess being sold to the local utility company.
Dynalytics led similar activities for
many other projects, such as the 41 megawatt ($79 million) facility
installed at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, and the 107
megawatt ($120 million) plant that produces utilities at John F. Kennedy
International Airport, NY. Similar projects were undertaken for many
other power plant developers in the United States.
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Outside of the
United States:
managing all environmental matters, including environmental data
acquisition and assessment, ascertaining regulatory requirements and
preparing applications for permitting numerous, large ($>$100 million)
power plants throughout the world. These include the 484 megawatt
plant at the Petrobras Refinery in Salvador, Brazil, the 450 megawatt plants
at Rosarito and Monterrey, Mexico, the 750 megawatt heavy-oil based power
plant at Barranquilla, Columbia, and the 1,356 megawatt coal-fired power
plant at Jorf Lasfar, Morocco. Similar large and complex environmental
assignments were completed for many major international companies.
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The
U.S. Department of Justice retained Dynalytics
Corp. to perform an
independent retrospective BACT analysis and provide a detailed analysis of
others’ reports in connection with the federal government’s suit against
certain mid-western coal-fired power plants.
Material, opinions and advice were incorporated in United
States of America v. Illinois Power Company.
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Dynalytics
Corp, has co-directed (with ABB Energy Ventures) a six month
feasibility/financeability study of a proposed 150 megawatt cogeneration
plant fueled partially with coke-oven off-gas, proposed for the USX Coke
Facility at Clairton, PA.
The major hurdles were the operational and environmental constraints
arising from handling and converting coal to coke in technically and
economically acceptable manner. Detailed
studies of 56 scenarios of simultaneous coke and steel production were
performed.
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Dynalytics
Corp. prepared the NOx Compliance Plan for the Village of
Rockville Centre
to submit to the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Village operates a 33.5 megawatt power plant that uses eight
diesel engines, of differing capacities, efficiencies and NOx emission rates
that depend on the fuel being used and the unit’s output. The Plan provides an economical method of operating the Village’s
plant while meeting the State’s new emission limitations as well as
various constraints on fuel gas and electric capacity, and mechanical
operations.
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