Technical and economic assessment on coal-fired power generation FGD in China
- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Dept. of Environmental Engineering
Serious pollution of SO{sub 2} and acid deposition have emerged in China in the latest decade due to the stagnant growth of coal use. As a large consumer of energy, thermal power generation takes up about 30% of the total coal consumption and will remain an increasing demand for coal over a long period. In the paper, the pollution status, trend and a series of related policy measures made by the government were presented to give the great significance to the control of SO{sub 2} emissions from power generation. Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) is widely adopted over the world to control SO{sub 2} emissions. In China, the research and development of power plant FGD technology were initiated in the mid 70`s. Especially since the 7th and 8th Five-Year plan, more efforts have been made on FGD development and introduction. The authors carried out a systematic review on the FGD technical status in China, placing an emphasis on the processes pilot tested, demonstrated, introduced and applied, such as limestone(lime)-gypsum process, lime spray drying, phosphate ammoniate compound fertilizer process, simplified wet limestone process, furnace calcium injection/post-furnace humidification and simplified combined dust/SO{sub 2} removal. The test and operation were described in details and the main technical indices were listed for the various processes. Following the technical assessment, the authors set up a methodology to gave a comparable economic evaluation on the FGD processes. Based on the methodology, unified setting of economic parameters such as discount, inflation and price of materials, the estimation was made for the FGD capital, operation cost and levelized cost. In addition, the sensitivity of main parameters such as generation installing capacity and sulfur content of coal was analyzed on the cost of SO{sub 2} removal. The results showed that the rise of power generation cost would be 0.02-0.03 Yuan/kWh and 0.01-0.02 Yuan/kWh for wet and dry FGD installations, respectively, depending on the specific process used. In view of the relatively small effect of FGD on the power generation cost, the authors thought that the FGD cost could be incorporated into power price with only a small impact on the people`s living.
- OSTI ID:
- 324752
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970931-; TRN: IM9911%%449
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. annual international Pittsburgh coal conference and workshop: clean coal technology and coal utilization, Taiyuan (China), 23-27 Sep 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Fourteenth annual international Pittsburgh coal conference and workshop: Proceedings; PB: [1500] p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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