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Title: Scaleup tests and supporting research for the development of duct injection technology. Topical report No. 2, Task 3.1: Evaluation of system performance, Duct Injection Test Facility, Muskingum River Power Plant, Beverly, Ohio

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10162418· OSTI ID:10162418
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  1. Southern Research Inst., Birmingham, AL (United States)
  2. Gilbert/Commonwealth, Inc., Reading, PA (United States)

This Topical Report No. 2 is an interim report on the Duct Injection Test Facility being operated for the Department of Energy at Beverly, Ohio. Either dry calcium hydroxide or an aqueous slurry of calcium hydroxide (prepared by slaking quicklime) is injected into a slipstream of flue gas to achieve partial removal of SO{sub 2} from a coal-burning power station. Water injected with the slurry or injected separately from the dry sorbents cools the flue gas and increases the water vapor content of the gas. The addition of water, either in the slurry or in a separate spray, makes the extent of reaction between the sorbent and the SO{sub 2} more complete; the presumption is that water is effective in the liquid state, when it is able to wet the sorbent particles physically, and not especially effective in the vapor state. An electrostatic precipitator collects the combination of suspended solids (fly ash from the boiler and sorbent from the duct injection process). All of the operations are being carried out on the scale of approximately 50,000 acfm of flue gas.

Research Organization:
Gilbert/Commonwealth, Inc., Reading, PA (United States); Southern Research Inst., Birmingham, AL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC22-88PC88851
OSTI ID:
10162418
Report Number(s):
DOE/PC/88851-T2; G/C-2782-2; SRI-ENV-91-471-6715-T2; ON: DE92018702
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 20 Apr 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English