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COAL UTILITY EVIRONMENTAL COST (CUECOST) WORKBOOK USER'S MANUAL
Citation:
Keeth, R., R. Blagg, C. E. Burklin, B. Kosmicki, D. Rhodes, AND T. Waddell. COAL UTILITY EVIRONMENTAL COST (CUECOST) WORKBOOK USER'S MANUAL. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-99/056 (NTIS PB99-501728), 1999.
Description:
The document is a user's manual for the Coal Utility Environmental Cost (CUECost) workbook (an interrelated set of spreadsheets) and documents its development and the validity of methods used to estimate installed capital ad annualize costs. The CUECost workbook produces rough-order-of-magnitude 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, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter. In general, system performance is an input requirement for the workbook user. The workbook was designed to calculate estimates of an integrated APC system or individual component costs for various APC technologies currently used in the utility industry. Nine technologies are currently in the workbook: flue gas desulfurization--limestone with forced oxidation, lime spray drying, and lime stone with dibasic acid; particulate matter removal--electrostatic precipitators and fabric filters; and NOx control--selective catalytic reduction, selective non-catalytic reduction, natural gas reburning, and low-NOx burners.