Pilot-scale carbon injection for mercury control at Comanche Station
The Department of Energy is sponsoring an investigation of the applicability of using activated carbon sorbents for control of mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. There is a significant level of federal regulatory interest regarding the need and feasibility of controlling these emissions. This interest arises from the status of coal-fired power plants as responsible for approximately 33% of the estimated anthropogenic mercury emissions in the U.S. EPA decided in April 1998 that although current technologies and emission data were not sufficiently developed to require implementation today, the results of further study and testing would determine regulatory direction within three to five years. DOE, Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), and EPRI are funding pilot and field tests to evaluate the feasibility of carbon injection as a potential mercury control technology. ADA Technologies performs the fabrication, pilot operation, and reporting. The work described in this paper is a summary of test results on a 600- actual cubic feet per minute (acfm) pilot-scale particulate collector, configurable as an ESP or baghouse. This pilot is installed at PSCo's Comanche Station, and has been operating since mid-1996. Testing to determine the efficacy of carbon injection as a mercury control technology on this pilot, has provided mixed results and many questions remain concerning this technology. One of the challenges encountered in this project has been in mercury measurement and test repeatability. Improvements have been made in sampling methodology which have resulted in improved repeatability among replicate tests. Mercury removal rates as a function of flue gas temperature and carbon injection rate have been quantified and preliminary results are presented in this paper. The transferability of results to full-scale or to other coal-fired power plants is still being evaluated under this program.
- Research Organization:
- ADA Technologies, Inc., Englewood, CO (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 20002220
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-990608-; TRN: IM200002%%220
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Air and Waste 92nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition, St. Louis, MO (US), 06/20/1999--06/24/1999; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating Systems: Windows 3.1, '95, '98 and NT; Macintosh; and UNIX; PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Air and Waste 92nd annual meeting and exhibition proceedings, [9500] pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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