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The reduction of gas phase air toxics from combustion and incineration sources using the GE-MITSUI-BF activated coke process

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:121446
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Mitsui Mining Company, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
  2. Mitsui Mining Company, Ltd., Kukuoka (Japan)
  3. General Electric Environmental Services, Inc., Lebandon, PA (United States)

The dry desulfurization, denitification and air toxics removal process using activated coke (AC) was originally researched and developed during the nineteen-sixties by Bergbau Forschung (BF), now called Deutsche Montan Technologies. Mitsui Mining Company (MMC) signed a licensing agreement with BF in 1982 to investigate, test and adapt the system to the facilities in Japan. Japanese regulations are stricter than in the United States toward SOx/NOx pollutants, as well as flyash emissions from the utility industry, oil refineries and other industries. This process is installed on four coal-fired boilers and Fluidized Catalytic Cracker (FCC) units. These plants were constructed by MMC in Japan and Uhde GmbH in Germany. General Electric Environmental Services, Inc. (GEESI) signed a license agreement in 1992 with MMC and Mitsui and Company, Ltd. of Tokyo. Under this agreement, GEESI will market, design, fabricate and install the Mitsui-BF process for flue gas cleaning applications in North America. MMC also developed a technology to produce AC used in the dry DeSOx/DeNOx/Air Toxics removal process based on their own metallurgical coke manufacturing technology. This paper provides information on the details of MMC`s AC used in the dry DeSOx/DeNOx/Air Toxics removal process and of the DeSOx/DeNOxWr Toxics removal process itself.

Research Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
OSTI ID:
121446
Report Number(s):
EPRI-TR--105258-Vol.3; CONF-950332--Vol.3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English