EFFECTIVE USE OF BOTH COHPACTM AND TOXECONTMTECHNOLOGIES AS THE “TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE”FOR PARTICULATE AND MERCURY CONTROL ON COALFIREDBOILERS

摘要

With the pending legislation for reduction of mercury emissions as well as otherpollutants from the combustion of coal from power plants, several programs are currentlyunderway to demonstrate mercury emissions from existing facilities. This paper willdiscuss the success of utilizing EPRI’s COHPACTM and TOXECONTM technologies asoffered commercially by Hamon Research-Cottrell for the reduction of mercury and otherpollutants, including fine particulates.The success of this unique multi-pollutant control technology, to remove mercury anddioxins from flue gas was adopted by American Ref-Fuel, for use at their SEMASSwaste-to-energy combustion facility located in Massachusetts. It has also beendemonstrated for coal-fired power plant applications during the first full-scale DOE testprogram conducted by ADA-ES at Alabama Power E.C. Gaston Station. Results fromSEMASS and this initial DOE demonstration program, plus additional releasedinformation from the second phase of this DOE program which starting in early 2003,will be discussed in this paper.