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Developments in FGD

Author(s): Hermine Nalbandian Soud

Price: £180.00

Ref: CCC/29 ISBN: 92-9029-330-X Published Date: 01/03/2000

No. of Tables: 27 No. of Figures: 42 No. of Pages: 85

Flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) is the principal method of controlling SO₂ emissions from utility size pulversied coal combustion. On smaller plants, and where by-product disposal is not an issue, furnace sorbent injection with limestone followed by spray dry scrubbing can achieve very high removal efficiencies and does not entail the high costs involved in using lime as sorbent. In such a configuration, the technology can be applied at facilities firing higher sulphur coals than can be used when these systems are applied individually. Combining duct sorbent injection with fabric filters is also an attractive option with smaller and older plants. Development continues to aggregate the removal of several air pollutants including SO₂, NOx, fine particulate matter and trace elements (especially mercury) in a single process. However, for new and large power stations, where a large amount of by-product is generated, the usual choice continues to be wet scrubber technology to control SO₂ emissions. Capital costs have reduced greatly over the last three decades. Operating and maintenance costs of wet scrubbers have always been competitive with all other technologies. This is due to the high removal efficiencies achieved, availability and cost of the limestone sorbent and sale of the system by-products. They are also capable of processing flue gas from different types of coal with high sulphur content.

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