Assessment of new sources performance standards (NSPS) for anthracite-fired industrial boilers
Environmental Research and Technology, Inc. and Berger Associates, under separate contracts with the US Department of Energy, were requested to estimate the impact of various levels of industrial boiler new sources performance standards (NSPS) on potential future markets for anthracite use in industrial boilers and to analyze the impact of changes in anthracite use on the air quality, environment, and economics of the NE Pennsylvania anthracite region. The combined contractors' analyses presented here review the properties of anthracite as a fuel, primarily in industrial markets, as well as present use and trends for future use. This report focuses on the anticipated effect of an exemption for anthracite from the industrial boiler sulfur dioxide NSPS, currently under development by the Environmental Protection Agency. At present, on a national basis industrial bolers are not a major market for anthracite. In 1973, only 1.26 percent of the coal burned in major industrial boilers was anthracite. However, the market for anthracite is a highly regional one; more than half of the anthracite consumed in industrial boilers between 1973 and 1978 was in Pennsylvania. The major constraints to future use of anthracite are its cost relative to substitute fuels and feedstocks and its technical limitations which can be overcome in part by purchasing larger, more expensive, boilers. An exemption for anthracite from sulfur removal requirements in the upcoming NSPS for industrial boilers would make the more expensive but cleaner anthracite competitive with bituminous coal. This analysis estimates the 1995 annual anthracite consumption by industrial boilers. The best case estimate is 2.7 million tons; the worst case is 11,000 tons. Socio-economic factors related to the use of anthracite in Northeastern Pennsylvania are considered.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental Research and Technology, Inc., Concord, MA (USA); Berger Associates, Harrisburg, PA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC01-80RA20028
- OSTI ID:
- 5241688
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/RA/20028-1; ON: DE82015383
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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