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CUECost workbook development documentation
Citation:
YELVERTON, W. AND Arcadis. CUECost workbook development documentation. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-09/131, 2009.
Impact/Purpose:
EPA report
Description:
This is a user's manual for the Coal Utility Environmental Cost (CUECost) workbook to estimate installed capital and annualized costs. The CUECost workbook produces rough-order-of-magnitude (ROM) cost estimates (+/-30% accuracy) of the installed capital and annualized operating costs for air pollution control (APC) systems installed on coal-fired power plants to control emissions of sulfur dioxide (S02), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), mercury (Hg), and carbon dioxide (C02). System performance is an input requirement for the workbook. It was designed to calculate estimates of an integrated APC system or individual component costs for various APC technologies used in the utility industry. Twelve technologies are currently in the workbook: flue gas desulfurization (FGD)-limestone with forced oxidation (LSFO) and with dibasic acid and lime spray drying (LSD);particulate matter removal-electrostatic precipitator (E5P) and fabric filter (FF); NOx control-selective catalytic reduction (SCR), selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR), natural gas reburning, and low-NOx burner; mercury control--powdered activated carbon injection; and CO2 control- mono-ethanol amine process, chilled ammonia process and sorbent injection.