Two years of outstanding AFGD performance, pure air on the Lakes Bailly Scrubber Facility
- Pure Air, Allentown, PA (United States)
- Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), Chesterton, IN (United States); and others
The {open_quotes}Advanced Flue Gas Desulfurization (AFGD) Demonstration Project{close_quotes} is a $151.3 million cooperative effort between the U.S. Department of Energy and a project company of Pure Air, a general partnership of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. The goal of the AFGD project is to demonstrate that, by combining state-of-the-art technology, highly efficient plant operation and maintenance capabilities, and by-product gypsum sales, significant reductions of SO{sub 2} emissions can be achieved at approximately one-half the life cycle of a conventional Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) system. Further, this emission reduction is achieved without generating solid waste and while minimizing liquid wastewater effluent. Briefly, this project entails the design, construction and operation of a nominal 600 MWe AFGD facility to remove SO{sub 2} from coal-fired power plant flue gas at the Northern Indiana Public Service Company`s Bailly Generating Station, located approximately 40 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois. The facility is used to demonstrate a variety of advanced technical and business-related features, during a three-year period of operation which began in the summer of 1992. The aim of this demonstration is to accelerate near-term commercialization. Key features of the AFGD project are discussed. Construction of the scrubber is complete; operations began in June 1992, ahead of schedule and within budget. The Clean Coal demonstration project calls for three years of operations. After the three-year demonstration period, Pure Air on the Lake will continue to Own-and-Operate the scrubber for the next 17 years. This paper review the advanced wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) design features, and the environmental and business features of the project. Also included are data on the first two years of successful operation.
- Research Organization:
- US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States); Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
- OSTI ID:
- 81453
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941089-Vol.2; ON: DE95011613; TRN: 95:004991-0004
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: US-Korea electric power generation seminar mission, Seoul (Korea, Republic of), 24-28 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]; Related Information: Is Part Of US-Korea Electric Power Generation Seminar Mission: Proceedings, Volume 2; Chun, Sun W. [USDOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, PA (United States)]; PB: 607 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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