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HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE PARTICULATE CONTROL REQUIREMENTS
Citation:
Parker, R. AND S. Calvert. HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE PARTICULATE CONTROL REQUIREMENTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/7-77/071.
Description:
The report reviews and evaluates high-temperature and high-pressure particulate cleanup requirements of existing and proposed energy processes. The study's aims are to define specific high-temperature and high-pressure particle removal problems, to indicate potential solutions, and to identify areas where current knowledge and data are inadequate. Primary emphasis is on the requirements of processes now being proposed as clean methods for obtaining energy from coal; that is, fluidized-bed coal combustion, coal gasification, and direct coal-fired gas turbines. Also considered are the cleanup requirements and experience of other high-temperature and/or high-pressure processes such as fluid-bed catalytic cracking units, metallurgical furnaces, geothermal power plants, high-pressure pipelines, and magnetohydrodynamic power generation. Current knowledge concerning turbine erosion, corrosion, and deposition problems is also presented.