Planning system operations to meet environmental constraints

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Proceedings of the American Power Conference; (United States)

OSTI ID:7307916

Hess, S W; Parker, D; Alms, J E; McKinley, J H ^[1]; Le, K D; Malone, M J; Mousseau, T E ^[2]

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1. Southern California Edison, Rosemead, CA (US)
2. Asea Brown Boveri, Pittsburgh, PA (US)

This paper reports that since the introduction of the Clean Air Act Amendments in November, 1990, environmental constraints have topped the list of management concerns. The overall goal of the Clean Air Act Amendments is to reduce SO{sub 2} emissions by 10 million tons and NO{sub x} emissions by 2 million tons per year. Using the Command and control regulatory approach, the NO{sub x} requirements will force utilities to install low-NO{sub x} burning technology by 1995 to limit their NO{sub x} emissions under 0.45 lb/MMBtu for tangentially-fired boilers and 0.5 lb/MMBtu for dry-bottom boilers. The SO{sub 2} laws, which aim at lowering SO{sub 2} emissions b y 40 percent from 1980 levels, will be implemented in 2 phases.

• OSTI ID: 7307916
• Report Number(s): CONF-920432--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Proceedings of the American Power Conference; (United States) Journal Volume: 54:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290300* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Environment
Health
& Safety
290500 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Research
Development
Demonstration
& Commercialization
AMENDMENTS
BOILERS
CHALCOGENIDES
CONTROL
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENT
LAWS
MANAGEMENT
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
OPERATION
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLANNING
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION LAWS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
REGULATIONS
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
US CLEAN AIR ACT