MIDWEST ENERGY RESOURCES
Krech Ojard has performed multiple services for the Midwest Energy Resources facility, the largest coal trans-shipment facility on the Great Lakes and in the Midwest area. This versatile transshipment facility is a large part of the Great Lakes industry with direct connections to shipping, rail, and trucking transportation. Midwest Energy Resources has been a repeat customer for our engineers and architects and we are proud to have been able to see this facility grow over the years of working relationship with them. This impressive, large scale facility has been extensively upgraded in recent years and has been a source of variable and unique project experience for our industrial professionals.
KOA assisted in the expansion of Midwest Energy Resources’s annual capacity from 18,000,000 to 25,000,000 NT, the design of a dustless conveyor transfer points, the design of a rail car dust suppression systems, increase stockpiling and car unloading rate from 3500 NT to 5000 NT/HR and the design of a rotary coupler rail car dump.
Other services that KO provided included preliminary engineering (layout and cost estimate) project management, architectural services, equipment specification and purchasing assistance, detail design (engineering, material handling, structural design), rotary railcar dumper installation, marine and structural assessments of pier and dock structures, start–up assistance and retrofits to existing plant with minimal shutdown.
