skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Environmental assessment of a firetube boiler firing coal/oil/water mixtures. Volume 1. Technical results. Final report, February 1981-November 1983

Abstract

This volume describes emission results from sampling of flue-gas from a firetube boiler burning a coal/oil/water (COW) mixture and COW with soda ash added (COW+SA) to control SO/sub 2/ emissions. Measurements included: continuous monitoring of flue-gas emissions; source assessment sampling system (SASS) sampling of the flue gas with subsequent laboratory analysis of the samples to give total flue gas organics in two boiling point ranges, specific quantitation of the semivolatile organic priority pollutant species, and flue gas concentrations of 73 trace elements; Method 5 sampling for total particulate; and controlled condensation system sampling for SO/sub 2/ and SO/sub 3/ emissions. Flue-gas SO/sub 2/ emissions decreased almost 99% with soda ash addition from 1,089 to 13.6 ppm (3% O2). NOx emissions decreased slightly from 477 to 427 ppm, while CO emissions increased significantly from an average of 25 to 426 ppm (all at 3% O2). Particulate loading at the boiler outlet almost doubled (from 1,970 to 3,715 pg/dscm) with the additive. The size distribution of particulate also shifted to a much smaller mean diameter. Total organic emissions increased from 6.7 to 13.1 mg/dscm; most of the increase were nonvolatile (C16+) organics. Of the semivolatile organic priority pollutant species, only fluoranthene andmore » phenanthrene were detected with the COW fuel, and phenanthrene with the COW+SA fuel.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Acurex Corp., Mountain View, CA (USA). Energy and Environmental Div.
OSTI Identifier:
6017972
Report Number(s):
PB-85-108082/XAD; ACUREX/TR-81-89/EE-VOL-1
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also Volume 2, PB85-108090
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 42 ENGINEERING; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; 02 PETROLEUM; COAL; COMBUSTION PRODUCTS; AIR POLLUTION; FLUE GAS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; FUEL OILS; FUEL SLURRIES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GAS ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC WASTES; SAMPLING; SULFUR OXIDES; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHALCOGENIDES; DISPERSIONS; ENERGY SOURCES; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GASEOUS WASTES; LIQUID FUELS; MATERIALS; MIXTURES; OILS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; POLLUTION; SLURRIES; SPECTROSCOPY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SUSPENSIONS; WASTES; 500200* - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 421000 - Engineering- Combustion Systems; 010900 - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Environmental Aspects; 020900 - Petroleum- Environmental Aspects

Citation Formats

DeRosier, R. Environmental assessment of a firetube boiler firing coal/oil/water mixtures. Volume 1. Technical results. Final report, February 1981-November 1983. United States: N. p., 1984. Web.
DeRosier, R. Environmental assessment of a firetube boiler firing coal/oil/water mixtures. Volume 1. Technical results. Final report, February 1981-November 1983. United States.
DeRosier, R. 1984. "Environmental assessment of a firetube boiler firing coal/oil/water mixtures. Volume 1. Technical results. Final report, February 1981-November 1983". United States.
@article{osti_6017972,
title = {Environmental assessment of a firetube boiler firing coal/oil/water mixtures. Volume 1. Technical results. Final report, February 1981-November 1983},
author = {DeRosier, R},
abstractNote = {This volume describes emission results from sampling of flue-gas from a firetube boiler burning a coal/oil/water (COW) mixture and COW with soda ash added (COW+SA) to control SO/sub 2/ emissions. Measurements included: continuous monitoring of flue-gas emissions; source assessment sampling system (SASS) sampling of the flue gas with subsequent laboratory analysis of the samples to give total flue gas organics in two boiling point ranges, specific quantitation of the semivolatile organic priority pollutant species, and flue gas concentrations of 73 trace elements; Method 5 sampling for total particulate; and controlled condensation system sampling for SO/sub 2/ and SO/sub 3/ emissions. Flue-gas SO/sub 2/ emissions decreased almost 99% with soda ash addition from 1,089 to 13.6 ppm (3% O2). NOx emissions decreased slightly from 477 to 427 ppm, while CO emissions increased significantly from an average of 25 to 426 ppm (all at 3% O2). Particulate loading at the boiler outlet almost doubled (from 1,970 to 3,715 pg/dscm) with the additive. The size distribution of particulate also shifted to a much smaller mean diameter. Total organic emissions increased from 6.7 to 13.1 mg/dscm; most of the increase were nonvolatile (C16+) organics. Of the semivolatile organic priority pollutant species, only fluoranthene and phenanthrene were detected with the COW fuel, and phenanthrene with the COW+SA fuel.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6017972}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984},
month = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984}
}

Technical Report:
Other availability
Please see Document Availability for additional information on obtaining the full-text document. Library patrons may search WorldCat to identify libraries that may hold this item. Keep in mind that many technical reports are not cataloged in WorldCat.

Save / Share: