Britain is the first country to set legally binding carbon reduction targets, requiring that greenhouse gas emissions be cut 22% below 1990 levels by 2012, 28% below the 1990 benchmark…
Plant Design
In a move cheered by Ohio officials, FirstEnergy Corp. has announced plans to repower Units 4 and 5 of its R.E. Burger coal-fired power plant to burn biomass to produce…
In many countries, plants have to fulfill specific requirements of the electrical grid (such as frequency control, dispatch control, automatic generation control (AGC), and so on) and are paid accordingly,…
Many coal-fired power stations built before 1980 were constructed using bins, bunkers, and silos designed for relatively easy-handling lump coal. Trends toward using lower-cost fuel and added preparation steps have…
Dallman Unit 4 is under construction (Figure 1) by the City Water, Light and Power (CWLP) utility of the City of Springfield, Ill. The 200-MW Unit 4 will fire pulverized…
Since the introduction of the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA), coal-fired power plants in the U.S. have been required to reduce undesirable emissions, particularly those of sulfur dioxide (SO2). Title…
Seminole Electric Cooperative’s (SEC) Seminole Generating Station (SGS) features two 650-MW coal-fired units located on the St. Johns River, about 50 miles south of Jacksonville, Florida (Figure 1). The plant’s…
Many automation engineers are coming face to face with real fieldbus applications for the first time. Fieldbus (the use of digital communications networks for distributed instrumentation and control) is a…
Reducing NOx, SO2, and other air pollutants continues to be a challenge for the power generation industry. The technologies are well-understood, but the devil is always in the details, especially…
In early June, New York Gov. David Paterson proclaimed that his state would commit $6 million to buttress a carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) viability study for the development of…