Impacts on individual industrial boilers of alternative new source performance standards for sulfur dioxide

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5010502

Knudson, D A; Veselka, T D; South, D W

This report presents an analysis of the cost impacts of several regulatory options for new industrial, commercial, and institutional coal-fired boilers. The motivation for the analysis was the proposed revision to the industrial boiler new source performance standards (NSPS) for sulfur dioxide (SO/sub 2/). Current standards limit SO/sub 2/ emissions to 1.2 lb SO/sub 2//10/sup 6/ Btu for coal-fired units with heat input greater than 250 x 10/sup 6/ Btu/h. Proposed revisions to this standard would require a 90% reduction in emissions and impose an emission ceiling of 1.2 lb SO/sub 2//10/sup 6/ Btu for boilers with heat input greater than 100 x 10/sup 6/ Btu/h (51 Fed. Reg. 22384: June 19, 1986). These revisions represent two major changes in industrial boiler NSPS for SO/sub 2/: (1) reducing the minimum applicable boiler size from 250 x 10/sup 6/ Btu/h to 100 x 10/sup 6/ Btu/h, and (2) requiring a mandatory 90% SO/sub 2/ emission reduction. This study presents an independent analysis of the relevant costs and emission reduction potential from compliance with the proposed NSPS revisions. These results are contrasted with several alternative regulatory options for industrial boiler SO/sub 2/ NSPS. The regulatory impact analysis conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was reviewed and provides the basis for much of the information contained in this report. Published EPA information, supplemented with appropriate independent data, was used to compute the annualized costs and cost-effectiveness (in dollars per ton of SO/sub 2/ removed) for a variety of potentially viable regulatory options.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5010502
• Report Number(s): ANL/EES-TM-314; ON: DE87000946
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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