| Show eject t Money workers lots of equipment corns come together at project jib iob site The huge amount of money the large number of workers and the uncountable parts and pieces of equipment talked about in Vernal come into focus at the work site itself The crude beginnings of the Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative power plant already stick up from the desolate sagebrush covered earth about 35 miles mUes south of Vernal All that remains is to refine those beginnings into a living breathing power plant That sounding simple task looks and is quite complicated Over three quarters of a billion dollars of work remains to be bedone bedone done by over 50 sub contractors directed in their tasks by about a dozen or so main contractors Those figures come from Claris Clarin Ashby manager of ad- ad administrative administrative services All of the huge odd looking parts that have come through Vernal in the past few months on flatbed trucks are at the plant site So are a lot of smaller parts such as coated aluminium-coated valves that will belong to the plants plant's complicated boiler system that will create the steam to generate the electricity It is fascinating in itself the way the workers and material are scattered about in the performance of various tasks Put in perspective though bigger power plants have been built even in Utah For construction engineer Denny Doyle unofficial tour guide the Bonanza power plant is the third one he has seen go up expects the plant to start pro pro- producing producing electricity by December 1984 The single generator will be able to pro pro- produce produce duce megawatts of power meant for six member rural electric cooperatives serving Utah Colorado Wyoming and nd Nevada 11 The Bonanza plant will produce elec- elec electricity electricity in the state state the art fashion Doyle explained Water Water will be e heated by a H I II I t POLLUTION CONTROL buildings under con con- construction construction include a bag house right to remove particulates and a facility to remove sulfur from boiler fueled by coal pulverized into the form of dust Coal that fine is in a very explosive state said Doyle Tile The steam drives the fins ofa of a generator around and around The same principle applies for even the smallest of electric generators a part covered with n emissions The processes will produce solid wastes to be dumped in a nearby landfill a material that conducts electricity spins to break through a stationary magnetic field and produce electricity At full production the spinning part of the generator will turn times a minute Doyle said A generator of the size to produce megawatts of electricity is smaller than many may think he added The generator will occupy a portion of the main building about six stories high continued on page 2 |
