Industrial Emissions Control Technologies: Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 477-511
Author(s):  
Szymon Kwiatkowski ◽  
Merve Polat ◽  
Weijia Yu ◽  
Matthew Stanley Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Emissions Control ◽  
Industrial Emissions ◽  
Control Technologies

Industrial Emissions Control Technologies: Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Szymon Kwiatkowski ◽  
Merve Polat ◽  
Weijia Yu ◽  
Matthew S. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Emissions Control ◽  
Industrial Emissions ◽  
Control Technologies

PM2.5 Emissions from Industrial Boilers and Control Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 894-897
Author(s):  
Jia You Liu ◽  
Feng Zhong Sun
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Power ◽  
Control Technology ◽  
Emissions Control ◽  
Industrial Boilers ◽  
Control Technologies ◽  
And Control

Industrial boilers are important thermal power equipments. Soot, SOx and NOx, etc. generated from Industrial boilers are main sources of PM2.5. Based on the analysis of sources of PM2.5 emissions from industrial boilers, PM2.5 control technologies for industrial boilers such as dedusting technology, desulfurization technology and denitration technology are introduced and analyzed. According to the characteristics of current PM2.5 control technology and industrial boilers, technical route of PM2.5 emissions control for industrial boilers is recommended.

scholarly journals The effect of coal-fired power-plant SO<sub>2</sub> and NO<sub>x</sub> control technologies on aerosol nucleation in the source plumes

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 11519-11531 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Lonsdale ◽  
R. G. Stevens ◽  
C. A. Brock ◽  
P. A. Makar ◽  
E. M. Knipping ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Particle Formation ◽  
Particle Nucleation ◽  
Nox Emissions ◽  
Emissions Control ◽  
So2 Emissions ◽  
The Us ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Control Technologies

Abstract. Nucleation in coal-fired power-plant plumes can greatly contribute to particle number concentrations near source regions. The changing emissions rates of SO2 and NOx due to pollution-control technologies over recent decades may have had a significant effect on aerosol formation and growth in the plumes with ultimate implications for climate and human health. We use the System for Atmospheric Modeling (SAM) large-eddy simulation model with the TwO-Moment Aerosol Sectional (TOMAS) microphysics algorithm to model the nucleation in plumes of coal-fired plants. We test a range of cases with varying emissions to simulate the implementation of emissions-control technologies between 1997 and 2010. We start by simulating the W. A. Parish power plant (near Houston, TX) during this time period, when NOx emissions were reduced by ~90% and SO2 emissions decreased by ~30%. Increases in plume OH (due to the reduced NOx) produced enhanced SO2 oxidation and an order-of-magnitude increase in particle nucleation in the plume despite the reduction in SO2 emissions. These results suggest that NOx emissions could strongly regulate particle nucleation and growth in power-plant plumes. Next, we test a range of cases with varying emissions to simulate the implementation of SO2 and NOx emissions-control technologies. Particle formation generally increases with SO2 emission, while NOx shows two different regimes: increasing particle formation with increasing NOx under low-NOx emissions and decreasing particle formation with increasing NOx under high-NOx emissions. Next, we compare model results with airborne measurements made in the W. A. Parish power-plant plume in 2000 and 2006, confirming the importance of NOx emissions on new particle formation and highlighting the substantial effect of background aerosol loadings on this process (the more polluted background of the 2006 case caused more than an order-of-magnitude reduction in particle formation in the plume compared to the cleaner test day in 2000). Finally, we calculate particle-formation statistics of 330 coal-fired power plants in the US in 1997 and 2010, and the model results show a median decrease of 19% in particle formation rates from 1997 to 2010 (whereas the W. A. Parish case study showed an increase). Thus, the US power plants, on average, show a different result than was found for the W. A. Parish plant specifically, and it shows that the strong NOx controls (90% reduction) implemented at the W. A. Parish plant (with relatively weak SO2 emissions reductions, 30%) are not representative of most power plants in the US during the past 15 yr. These results suggest that there may be important climate implications of power-plant controls due to changes in plume chemistry and microphysics, but the magnitude and sign of the aerosol changes depend greatly on the relative reductions in NOx and SO2 emissions in each plant. More extensive plume measurements for a range of emissions of SO2 and NOx and in varying background aerosol conditions are needed, however, to better quantify these effects.

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