Extreme Makeover Synfuels Plant edition
Visitors are enjoying the newly remodeled visitors' center at the Great Plains Synfuels Plant. Completed in June 2009, the renovated model room and display area features information on the history, construction and operation of the coal gasification facility.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
- October 14, 2009
Visitors are enjoying the newly remodeled visitors' center at the Great Plains Synfuels Plant. Completed in June 2009, the renovated model room and display area features information on the history, construction and operation of the coal gasification facility.
A new lighting system highlights the scale model of the Synfuels Plant built in the early 1980s. Three new interactive displays feature the process, coproducts and economic value the plant offers.
The 18-month renovation also brought information previously displayed on the first level of the facility to the model room. Thirty-two display panels now line the model room, providing coal facts, construction statistics, process unit information, directions on how pipelines are built, and a variety of other information.
Another added feature includes three 32-inch flat screen televisions that show the scrubber, ammonia plant and carbon capture processes at the Synfuels Plant. These units were added after the model and original construction of the plant, so they are not included on the scale model. To ensure all visitors can take in the whole experience, an elevator was also added during the recent renovation.
More than 3,200 people have visited the Synfuels Plant through the end of September.
Headquarters
1600 E. Interstate Ave.
PO Box 5540
Bismarck, ND 58506-5540 USA
701.221.4400
Great Plains Synfuels Plant
420 County Road 26
Beulah, ND 58523-9400 USA
701.873.2100
