Grantee Research Project Results
Reburning with Additive Injection for High-Level NOx Control
EPA Contract Number: 68D98126Title: Reburning with Additive Injection for High-Level NOx Control
Investigators: Maly, Peter M.
Current Investigators: Benedict, Laksham
Small Business: Energy and Environmental Research Corporation (CA)
Current Small Business: EERGC
EPA Contact: Richards, April
Phase: I
Project Period: September 1, 1998 through March 1, 1999
Project Amount: $70,000
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase I (1998) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Air Quality and Air Toxics , SBIR - Air Pollution , Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Description:
Gas reburning (GR) is a cost-effective technique for achieving 50-60% NOx control in industrial and utility boilers. However, forthcoming legislation will require increased levels of NOx control (70-90%), for which selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is considered to be the state-of-the-art technology. SCR is relatively expensive, and it poses potential problems with reagent handling and spent catalyst disposal. Thus, what is needed is a technology capable of economically providing high-level NOx control without the generation of toxic waste products. The proposed technology will meet this need through the development of an innovative means of enhancing performance of the GR technology. Inexpensive, readily-available additives will be injected during reburning to increase NOx control via heterogeneous reactions. The process will be suitable for integration into new or existing utility and industrial boilers. It will be capable of providing high-level NOx control while retaining the cost effectiveness of GR and not generating any toxic byproducts.Supplemental Keywords:
small business, SBIR, air emissions, pollution prevention, engineering, chemistry, EPA., RFA, Scientific Discipline, Air, Toxics, Waste, Sustainable Industry/Business, Chemical Engineering, air toxics, cleaner production/pollution prevention, Environmental Chemistry, HAPS, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Hazardous Waste, Incineration/Combustion, Hazardous, Environmental Engineering, Nox, sulfur oxides, Nitrogen Oxides, combustion byproducts, hazardous waste disposal, oxidation, cleaner production, advanced treatment technologies, hazardous waste incineration, industrial technology, clean technology, low Nox burner, acid rain precursors, fugitive emissions, emission controls, hazardous waste incinerators, emissions, industrial boilers, energy efficiency, waste incineration, combustion technology, gas reburning, contaminant management, increased burn rate, combustion, industrial innovations, air emissions, incineration, pollution prevention, process optimization, nitrogen oxides (Nox), acid deposition, acid rain, combustion contaminantsProgress and Final Reports:
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