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Title: Electrostatic precipitator rapping with sonic horns at Atlantic Electric`s B.L. England Generating Station

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OSTI ID:405459

B.L. England Generating Station (BLE) is located in Beesleys Point, NJ. Beesleys Point is on Great Egg Bay, which is 20 minutes south of Atlantic City and one hour east of Philadelphia. BLE has three generating units: No. 1 is a 120 Megawatt (MW) B&W cyclone boiler; No. 2 is a 160 MW B&W cyclone boiler; & No. 3 is a tangential fired Combustion Engineering boiler. Units 1 & 2 burn medium sulfur eastern bituminous coal. Unit 3 burns No. 6 oil. Units 1&2 are equipped with precipitators (ESPs). The two ESPs were manufactured by Environmental Elements Corp. (EEC) and were placed in service in 1980. Units are dual chamber with each having four mechanical fields and eight electrical fields. Each field has two Transformer/Rectifier (T/R) sets for a total of sixteen per ESP. The ESPs are rigid frame design (Rigitrode by EEC) with hammer & anvil rapping. Ash reinjection systems permit direct or cross reinjection of fly ash. Both ESPs have perforated plates for inlet & outlet gas flow distribution. There are three inlet plates and one outlet plate. The first inlet plates and the outlets are cleaned via electric reciprocating vibrators. There was no means of cleaning the remaining plates provided.

OSTI ID:
405459
Report Number(s):
CONF-951208-; TRN: 96:004301-0007
Resource Relation:
Conference: Power-Gen America `95: power generation conference, Anaheim, CA (United States), 5-7 Dec 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Power-Gen `95. Book V: Operating plants. Volume 1 - performance enhancement. Volume 2 - operation & maintenance cost reduction; PB: 364 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English