Curtis Bay Coal Terminal Useful Life Study

Client

Halcrow (now CH2M HILL)
22 Cortland Street
New York, New York 10007

Completion Date

February, 2010

Project Description

Halcrow is a large engineering/consulting firm that offers planning, design and management services for developing infrastructure and buildings worldwide.� The firm specializes in the big issues that affect industry and communities � water, transportation, energy, and creating places to live and work.� The New York office specializes in waterfront design and management including: container, liquid/dry bulk, general cargo, roll-on roll-off, ferry terminals; marine infrastructure; breakwaters; and quays, wharfs, and jetties.� The office has been involved in a number of coal/bulk ports in the US and overseas.

Halcrow�s New York office was engaged to complete a desk study evaluation for the remaining useful life of the Curtis Bay Coal Terminal, also known as the Bay Side Coal Terminal.� The schematic below illustrates this facility, which is located in Baltimore, Maryland.� Halcrow engaged Energy Associates to assist on the coal handling elements of the assignment.

The Bay Side Coal Pier was placed in service in late-1981 and formally dedicated on August 6th, 1982.� The facility unloads CSX trains via a rotary dumper.� Coal is stockpiled by an overhead conveyor system that uses eight (8) lowering wells. The reclaim system includes two (2) tunnel reclaim conveyors, each fitted with multiple vibrating feeders.� Ships are loaded at 6000 tph.� The useful life assessment considered functional suitability, capacity/utilization, cost/efficiency, safety/compliance, and siting issues.� It cited a number of examples and projected the remaining useful based upon these factors.