FGD chemistry and analytical methods handbook: Volume 2, Chemical and physical test methods: Revision 1: Final report

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6599117

The purpose of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive guide to sampling, analytical, and physical test methods essential to the operation, maintenance, and understanding of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system chemistry. EPRI sponsored the first edition of this three-volume report in response to the needs of electric utility personnel responsible for establishing and operating commercial FGD analytical laboratories. The second, revised editions of Volumes 1 and 2 were prompted by the results of research into various non-standard aspects of FGD system chemistry. Volume 1 of the handbook explains FGD system chemistry in the detail necessary to understand how the processes operate and how process performance indicators can be used to optimize system operation. Volume 2 includes 63 physical-testing and chemical-analysis methods for reagents, slurries, and solids and information on the applicability of individual methods to specific FGD systems. Volume 3 contains instructions for an FGD solution chemistry computer program designed by EPRI as FGDLIQEQ. Executable on IBM-compatible personal computers, this program calculates the concentrations (activities) of chemical species (ions) in scrubber liquor and can calculate driving forces for important chemical reactions such as SO/sub 2/ absorption and calcium sulfite and surface precipitation. This program and selected chemical analyses will help an FGD system operator optimize system performance, prevent many potential process problems, and define solutions to existing problems.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Radian Corp., Austin, TX (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6599117
• Report Number(s): EPRI-CS-3612-Vol.2-Rev.1; ON: TI89004101
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010600 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Properties & Composition
010800* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Waste Management
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
200202 -- Fossil-Fueled Power Plants-- Waste Management-- Noxious Gas & Particulate Emissions
ALKALI METALS
ALKALINE EARTH METALS
CALCIUM
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBONATE ROCKS
CARBONATES
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHLORIDES
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
CONTROL
DESULFURIZATION
DISPERSIONS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELEMENTS
FLUE GAS
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
GASEOUS WASTES
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
LIMESTONE
MAGNESIUM
MANUALS
METALS
MIXTURES
NITRATES
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOSPHATES
PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
PROGRESS REPORT
QUALITY CONTROL
ROCKS
SAMPLING
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
SLURRIES
SODIUM
SOLIDS
SULFATES
SULFITES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SUSPENSIONS
TESTING
WASTES