Areas of specialty

The principals of SSI are registered degreed engineers with over 30 years of experience in both technical and management capacities. Our staff consists of mechanical, electrical, environmental, control systems engineers, designers, AutoCAD specialists, cost estimators, utility rate experts, and contract specialists –lawyers- for project privatization, shared energy savings contracts.

COGENERATION (BIOMASS, OIL, MSW, GAS, COAL) 

SEAWATER & BRACKISH WATER DESALINATION (MSF, MED, RO, VC).

DUAL -PURPOSE-FASILITY (DPF)

MULTI-PURPOSE-FACILITY (MPF)

ENERGY EFFICIENCY & CONSERVATION

EXPERT - LEGAL - WITNESS

GENERAL ENGINEERING, DESIGN, FEASIBILITY STUDIES & RESEARCH PROGRAM

DESALINATION PLANT LIFE SPAN EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION

PLANT ENGINEER & OPERATOR TRAINING IN DESALINATION- POWER

LOAD PROFILES: THERMAL, ELECTRICAL AND WATER LOAD PROFILES ARE THE KEY FOR PLANT SIZING AND ECONOMY. SSI WOULD NORMALLY OPTIMIZE LOAD PROFILES.

Overview of SSI Experience & Capabilities

  A. Cogeneration Facilities 

  • 1.1 MW gas turbine-based cogeneration plant, with 500 tons absorption chiller, LOWES Hotel Santa Monica, CA.

  • 0.8 MW gas turbine-based cogeneration plant for Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado Island, CA

  • 1.2 MW cogeneration facility, with 600 tons absorption chiller, St. John’s Hospital, Santa Monica, CA

  • 11.3 MW combines cycle cogeneration with 3000 tons hot water absorption chillers, Brea Data Center Main Frame Computers, Bank of America, Brea, CA

  • 7.5 MW back pressure steam turbine type cogeneration facility, convention type, with 4800 tons steam absorption chillers, Santa Monica Hospital, CA

  • Finance-Own and Operate (BOOT-JV) for 12 years, 2.5 MW gas engines- based cogeneration with 1000 tons steam absorption chillers, Saving Energy Performance Contract (SEPC-DOE), SSI performed the design and obtained the environmental permits, US Navy, Long Beach, CA

  • 25 MW combined cycle cogeneration based on GE- LM 2500, Federal Paper Co, city of Industry, CA.*

  • 8 MW with 4800 tons abs. chillers, American University of Irag, Cogeneration Facility, Dar El Handasa

  • California Energy Commission contract to SSI to perform detailed feasibility Studies for cogeneration facilities utilizing existing system of “Coal-bed Methane Gas” in Katowiska, Poland.

B. Biomass/ Wood Waste, Agriculture Refuse, Sawdust, Forest Residual, Etc.

  • 25 MW Biomass One combined cycle cogeneration facility utilizing sawdust as fuel, Medford, Oregon.

  • 11.3 MW power plant firing forest residual, Burney, CA*

  • 11.3 MW power plant firing forest residual, Westwood, CA*

  • 11.3 MW power plant firing forest residual, Blue Lake, CA*

  • 25 MW Fluidized-Bed-based power plant, Chinese Station, CA

  • 15 MW bagasse -cogeneration plant studies, Sugar Factories in Belize and India

  • 2 units, 25 MW each biomass fired plant, for Madera County, CA. for Bechtel 

C. Combined Power Seawater Desalination Facilities - Dual Purpose Facility (PDF) :

  • 19.8 MW/2.5 MMGD (million Gallons per Day) Combined Power Seawater facility (PDF), oil fires, La Paz, Mexico. A “JV” with San Diego Gas &Electricity (SDG&E) and PCL of Canada. BOOT/Privatization Project

  • 19.8 MW/2.5 MMGD Combined Power Seawater Facility (PDF), oil fires, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. A “JV” with SDG&E and PCL of Canada. BOOT/Privatization Project

  • 20 MW/2.5 MMGD Combined Power Seawater Desalination Facility, oil fires, Waikiki, Hawaii. A “JV “with SDG&E and PCL of Canada. BOOT/Privatization Project

  • 2x25 MW with 10 MMGD Proposal, gas fired, LADWP JV with National Energy Systems; Preliminary engineering/detailed financial estimates

  • Integrating 20/30 MMGD seawater desalination with 250 MW Repowering Facility for LADWP Harbor Power Plant. Preliminary engineering and detailed cost estimates.

  • Integrating 20 MMGD desalination facility with LADWP Haynes Power Plant, Seal Beach, California

  • 480 MW with 7.5 MMGD, Detailed engineering design for the Royal Commission of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

  • 1200 MW, with 200 MMGD “Master Plan” for Jubail Industrial Complex, Royal Commission of Saudi Ar.

  • Integrating 30 MMGD brackish water desalination facility with 1200 MW Etiwanda Power Plant for San Bernardino Industrial Park, CA for Southern California Edison (SCE) 

  • Juhaimah Refinery Desalination Facility Feasibility Study, Saudi Arabia performed as an employed engineer with Bechtel Power, San Francisco, CA.*

  • Consulting & engineering services for the design of Assir Desalination Power Plant  (for Bechtel)*  

  • 250 MW with 20 MMGD seawater desalination – “JV” with Dar El Handasa, a bidding proposal, MSF type desalination facility with power plant for Maskat, Oman.

  • 320 MW with 30 MMGD seawater desalination (MED type), JV with SDG&E, Tampa, Florida 

  • 5 years O&M for SWCC, Saudi Arabia includes 25 seawater desalination units of various sizes and two power plants utilizing “Bunker C” heavy liquid as the main fuel.

  • SuperSystems, Inc “SSI”, was awarded a contract from the Bureau of Reclamation, Denver office, to perform a research and investigate “The Construction of Integrating a Pilot Seawater Desalination Plant with Cogeneration Facility in Southern California”

  • Study the cost of supplying and installation two gas turbine units, 25 MW each, Najran power plant, Saudi Arabia, by Rajab & Silsilah through Dames & Moore Co.

 
D. Energy Efficiency Studies 

  • Assessment for cogen with absorption chillers plant for West Edmonton Mall, Canada.  SSI/PCL “JV”

  • Lowes Hotel, Santa Monica, CA    

  • Hilton Hotel, Sherman Oaks, CA

  • VA Hospital, Long Beach, CA.

  • Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, CA 

E. Water Management & ZLD  

  • SSI would normally perform a detailed “Water Balance Study” for the entire site. And If requested, investigate the potential and equivalent cost of

“Zero Liquid Discharge” “ZLD” technology.

* Involved by the principal of SSI