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Converting SDAP into gypsum in a wet limestone scrubber

Abstract

The ELSAM power pool has an installed electrical capacity of approx. 5 GW{sub e}, mainly firing import coal. The major base load units are equipped with desulphurization units and three different desulphurization technologies are used: the wet limestone gypsum process, the spray dry absorption process and a sulphuric acid process. Gypsum and sulphuric acid are commercialized, whereas it has been difficult to utilize the spray dry absorption product (SDAP). The main constituents of SDAP are calcium sulphide, calcium chloride, hydrated lime and impurities mainly originating from fly ash. Sulphide can be oxidized into sulphate in acidic solution - the reaction is utilized in the wet limestone gypsum process - and the possibility of using any spare capacity in the wet limestone gypsum units to oxidize the sulphide content of SDAP into sulphate and produce usable gypsum has been investigated in the laboratory and in a 400 MW{sub e} equivalent wet limestone unit. The limestone inhibition effect of the addition of SDAP is currently being studied in the laboratory in order to determine the effect of different SDAP types (plant/coal sources) on limestone reactivity before further long-term full-scale tests are performed and permanent use of the process planned. (EG)
Authors:
Fogh, F [1] 
  1. Faelleskemikerne, Elsamprojekt A/S, Fredericia (Denmark)
Publication Date:
Dec 01, 1996
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
NEI-DK-2465; CONF-9609282-
Reference Number:
SCA: 200202; 320305; 010800; PA: DK-96:001772; EDB-96:170230; SN: 96001697001
Resource Relation:
Conference: International conference on power plant chemical technology, Kolding (Denmark), 4-6 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Power plant chemical technology; PB: 357 p.
Subject:
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; GYPSUM; LIME-LIMESTONE WET SCRUBBING PROCESSES; WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; COAL; DESULFURIZATION
OSTI ID:
399379
Research Organizations:
Faelleskemikerne (Denmark)
Country of Origin:
Denmark
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE97714817; TRN: DK9601772
Availability:
OSTI as DE97714817
Submitting Site:
DK
Size:
pp. 2.1-2.12
Announcement Date:
Dec 09, 1996

Citation Formats

Fogh, F. Converting SDAP into gypsum in a wet limestone scrubber. Denmark: N. p., 1996. Web.
Fogh, F. Converting SDAP into gypsum in a wet limestone scrubber. Denmark.
Fogh, F. 1996. "Converting SDAP into gypsum in a wet limestone scrubber." Denmark.
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title = {Converting SDAP into gypsum in a wet limestone scrubber}
author = {Fogh, F}
abstractNote = {The ELSAM power pool has an installed electrical capacity of approx. 5 GW{sub e}, mainly firing import coal. The major base load units are equipped with desulphurization units and three different desulphurization technologies are used: the wet limestone gypsum process, the spray dry absorption process and a sulphuric acid process. Gypsum and sulphuric acid are commercialized, whereas it has been difficult to utilize the spray dry absorption product (SDAP). The main constituents of SDAP are calcium sulphide, calcium chloride, hydrated lime and impurities mainly originating from fly ash. Sulphide can be oxidized into sulphate in acidic solution - the reaction is utilized in the wet limestone gypsum process - and the possibility of using any spare capacity in the wet limestone gypsum units to oxidize the sulphide content of SDAP into sulphate and produce usable gypsum has been investigated in the laboratory and in a 400 MW{sub e} equivalent wet limestone unit. The limestone inhibition effect of the addition of SDAP is currently being studied in the laboratory in order to determine the effect of different SDAP types (plant/coal sources) on limestone reactivity before further long-term full-scale tests are performed and permanent use of the process planned. (EG)}
place = {Denmark}
year = {1996}
month = {Dec}
}