Refurbishment of Power Plants Alternatives to Decommissioning

摘要

The examples described in this paper show that it is possible to modernize aging power plants via retrofitting with good results for safety, profitability, environmental compatibility and smooth operation. In certain cases the use of innovative power plant components even enables them to reach top performance values. It is only when the general state of the installation, the infrastructure, the state of emission, the supply of fuel or existing pollution of sites would require such exprbitant sums that a new construction would be cheaper than retrofitting that decommissioning should be envisaged. Such a decision should be made after comparison of the costeffectiveness of several technical solutions.