Trigen-Syracuse owns and operates a 90 MW regenerative cycle (coal fired) power plant in Syracuse, New York.  The plant provides power to the existing power grid and delivers steam to a nearby paper mill. The paper mill required a substantial amount of additional steam (as a result of  adding a third paper machine) that could no longer be taken from the existing turbine extraction port. Trigen and LORING worked together to develop a solution.

An analysis of the power plant's parasitic electric demand, and the paper mill's thermal requirements, revealed a coincident load of 9.2 MWe and 300,000 pph of steam at 200 psig.

The solution was to integrate a 10 MW backpressure steam turbine into the system.  This provided 300,000 pph of steam (at 85° psig/870° F) supply to the turbine, discharge steam (at 200 psig) piping to the new paper machines, pressure reducing stations, desuperheaters, sky valves and silencers, flow meters, power and controls.

The additional steam flow requirements necessitated an increase in the existing water treatment system capacity. After analyzing the economics, it was determined that replacement of the existing system was the best approach.

With the new turbine powering the plant’s parasitic loads, the plant was able to attain the "Qualifying Facility (QF)" status from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.   This status exempts the facility from having to meet the stringent "utility" plant regulations.

Instrumentation and controls were integrated into the existing Bailey Central Control System.