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Major improvements in pulverized coal plant design

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OSTI ID:458533
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  1. Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (United States)
  2. ABB Environmental Systems, Birmingham, AL (United States)
  3. Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
The paper describes the work by the ABB team on the US Department of Energy (DOE) project Engineering Development of Advanced Coal-Fired Low-Emission Boiler Systems (LEBS) which is part of the DOE`s Combustion 2000 Program. The objectives of the LEBS Project are to dramatically improve environmental performance of future pulverized coal-fired power plants, to increase their efficiency and to reduce the cost of electricity using near-term technologies, i.e., advanced technologies that are partially developed. The overall objective is to expedite commercialization of the technologies that are developed under LEBS. A major deliverable of the Project is the design of a large, in this case 400 MWe, commercial generating unit (CGU). The design being developed by the ABB team is projected to meet all the Project objectives, i.e., to reduce emissions of NO{sub x}, SO{sub 2} and particulates to one-third to one-sixth NSPS limits while increasing net station efficiency significantly and reducing the cost of electricity. With the use of a Kalina cycle the net plant efficiency will be 45% (HHV) or higher. This design and future work are described in the paper.
OSTI ID:
458533
Report Number(s):
CONF-960322--; ISBN 0-932066-21-6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English