Advanced over fire air retrofit for summer ozone compliance
As part of a system wide Ozone Compliance Plan, Baltimore Gas and Electric (GBE) pursued a NOx reduction project at Brandon Shores Unit 1, a 680 MWg unit equipped with first generation low NOx burners. Strict current and proposed Ozone reduction regulations in the Northeastern United States required BGE to formulate a compliance plan. BGE reviewed many types of combustion and post-combustion NOx reduction techniques for the Station. An Over Fire Air (OFA) retrofit was evaluated as the least cost option to obtain compliance on a cost per ton of NOx removed. BGE selected an Advanced Over Fire (AOFA) System designed by Foster Wheeler (FW) to achieve their project goals for Brandon Shores Unit 1. The AOFA System demonstrated NOx reductions up to 44% at full load, with absolute NOx levels dropping to below 0.30 lb/MMBtu. All project goals for NOx, LOI (Loss on Ignition), CO, and boiler performance were met or exceeded. The Low NOx System proved to be a very cost effective method to reduce NOx for summertime Ozone compliance, while still allowing for optimum operating efficiency with the Low NOx System out of service during the non-Ozone season.
- Research Organization:
- Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 20013514
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1998 International Joint Power Generation Conference, Baltimore, MD (US), 08/23/1998--08/26/1998; Other Information: PBD: 1998; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 1998 international joint power generation conference (FACT-Vol.22). Volume 1: Fuels and combustion technologies; Gas turbines; Environmental engineering; Nuclear engineering, by Gupta, A.; Natole, R.; Sanyal, A.; Veilleux, J. [eds.], 921 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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