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Title: Advanced emissions control development program. Quarterly technical progress report No. 9, October 1--December 31, 1996

Abstract

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) is conducting a five-year project aimed at the development of practical, cost-effective strategies for reducing the emissions of hazardous air pollutants (commonly called air toxics) from coal-fired electric utility plants. The need for air toxic emissions controls may arise as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with implementation of Title III of the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990. Data generated during the program will provide utilities with the technical and economic information necessary to reliably evaluate various air toxics emission compliance options such as fuel switching, coal cleaning, and flue gas treatment. The development work is being carried out using B&W`s new Clean Environment Development Facility (CEDF) wherein air toxics emission control strategies can be developed under controlled conditions, and with proven predictability to commercial systems. Tests conducted in the CEDF provide high quality, repeatable, comparable data over a wide range of coal properties, operating conditions, and emissions control systems. Development work to date has concentrated on the capture of mercury, other trace metals, fine particulate, and the inorganic species hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Babcock and Wilcox Co., Alliance, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
492090
Report Number(s):
DOE/PC/94251-T2
ON: DE97052529
DOE Contract Number:  
FC22-94PC94251
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; FLUE GAS; CLEANING; PROGRESS REPORT; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; BAGHOUSES; SCRUBBERS; MERCURY; REMOVAL; PARTICULATES; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; SULFUR DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; FLOWSHEETS

Citation Formats

Evans, A P. Advanced emissions control development program. Quarterly technical progress report No. 9, October 1--December 31, 1996. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.2172/492090.
Evans, A P. Advanced emissions control development program. Quarterly technical progress report No. 9, October 1--December 31, 1996. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/492090
Evans, A P. 1996. "Advanced emissions control development program. Quarterly technical progress report No. 9, October 1--December 31, 1996". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/492090. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/492090.
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abstractNote = {Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) is conducting a five-year project aimed at the development of practical, cost-effective strategies for reducing the emissions of hazardous air pollutants (commonly called air toxics) from coal-fired electric utility plants. The need for air toxic emissions controls may arise as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with implementation of Title III of the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990. Data generated during the program will provide utilities with the technical and economic information necessary to reliably evaluate various air toxics emission compliance options such as fuel switching, coal cleaning, and flue gas treatment. The development work is being carried out using B&W`s new Clean Environment Development Facility (CEDF) wherein air toxics emission control strategies can be developed under controlled conditions, and with proven predictability to commercial systems. Tests conducted in the CEDF provide high quality, repeatable, comparable data over a wide range of coal properties, operating conditions, and emissions control systems. Development work to date has concentrated on the capture of mercury, other trace metals, fine particulate, and the inorganic species hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride.},
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year = {Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996},
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