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CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR COAL-FIRED BOILERS: APPLICATIONS TO CHINA
Citation:
Sedman*, C B., H. Ban, AND J. P. Gooch. CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR COAL-FIRED BOILERS: APPLICATIONS TO CHINA. Presented at 4th International Coal Conference, Beijing, China, 8/16-20/99.
Description:
The paper examines new multipollutant technologies and improvements to old technologies that may allow China and other rapidly developing nations to mitigate the high cost of retrofits and still achieve cleaner air. A program is outlined to jointly investigate some of these technologies for application to China. (NOTE: Air pollution regulations in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. have driven the development of technologies to control fine particles, acid gases, and toxic metals emissions. Due to the high costs of retrofits, smaller and older facilities have been closed or switched to more expensive, but cleaner, fuels. New regulations the U.S. for fine particles and toxic air pollutants are causing a rethinking of traditional control strategies that have addressed each pollutant somewhat separately and relied on the lowest sulfur coals.