Maryland Industrial Boilers Emissions Report.

摘要

This report identifies industrial boilers and process heaters installed in Maryland with heat input capacities greater than 10 million Btu per hour, and estimates their nitrogen oxides (NO-x) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This report also describes potential control technologies or operating and maintenance techniques for reducing these emissions. The operational information relating to industrial boilers and process heaters in Maryland and data on their emissions were obtained from the publicly available Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Emissions Inventory (NEI) database or were calculated. The emissions reduction technologies and techniques presented in this report have been in use on similar equipment for many years and have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing emissions by significant amounts. The information presented in this report will prove useful to legislators, as well as owners and operators of industrial boilers and process heaters in identifying possible reductions in the emission of ozone forming NO-x and greenhouse gases from these Maryland sources, and potential controls for achieving those reductions.