Commissioning and Early Operating Experience Point Aconi Circulating Fluidized Bed, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

The paper gives a summary description of the commissioning and early operating experience on the Circulating Fluidized Bed Unit at Nova Scotia Power Incorporated's Point Aconi Generating Plant. The experience quoted is limited to the boiler and auxiliaries including ash handling. Both coal and limestone characteristics have presented some unique challenges to the start-up of this unit and have required major on site testing and some field modifications to address them. The current status of the unit is given with a description of the on-going activities that will follow to complete the final commercial operation of the plant.