Limestone technology

There are, however, technological means available to burn incompletely desulfurized fuels at the same time minimizing SO2 emissions. In the auto-desulfurizing AUDE boiler developed by IFF, the effluent is treated in place by an absorbent based on lime and limestone calcium sulfate is obtained. This system enables a gas desulfurization of 80% it requires nevertheless a relatively large amount of solid material, on the order of 200 kg per ton of fuel. 

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SNR s fluidized-bed cogeneiation system is an early example of the commercial development of AFBC technology. Foster Wheeler designed, fabricated, and erected the coal-fired AFBC/boHer, which generates 6.6 MWe and 37 MW thermal (also denoted as MWt) of heat energy. The thermal energy is transferred via medium-pressure hot water to satisfy the heat demand of the tank farm. The unit bums 6.4 t/h of coal and uses a calcium to sulfur mole ratio of 3 to set the limestone feed rate. The spent bed material may be reiajected iato the bed as needed to maintain or build bed iaventory. The fly ash, collected ia two multicyclone mechanical collectors, may also be transferred pneumatically back to the combustor to iacrease the carbon bumup efficiency from 93%, without fly ash reiajection, to 98%. 

Three demonstrations of the LIMB technology have been carried out. The first was a privately funded project in the 75 MWt Boiler 405 at the No. 4 AC Station of Inland Steel Industries, Inc. (56). By injecting 70 wt % minus 200 mesh (74 -lm) limestone, approximately 40% SO2 removal was achieved at a Ca S ratio of 3. This rose to 50% removal when the Ca S ratio was increased to 4. The second LIMB demonstration was the backup desulfurization system installed by B W as part of the relocation, repowering, and reconfiguration of the PCS power plant (46). 

Although the current source of acetylene is petroleum, it can be manufactured from calcium carbide, a product of the reachon of limestone and coke (carbon). During World War II, Germany, having a shortage of petroleum, used the latter technology to develop a chemical industry based on acetylene. 

Boynton, R. S. (1980), Chemistry and Technology of Lime and Limestone, Wiley, New York. 

This technology shows benefits for carbon capture. Limestone is cheap and widely available, and there is a potential for process integration, which can lead to low energy penalties, i.e., heat released from carbonisation can be utilised in a steam cycle or the heat used in the calciner reactor can be recovered in the carbonation process. 

Fluidized bed combustion is a newer technology that burns coal in an efficient manner and can produce both electricity and heat. A mixture of finely crushed coal and limestone rides on a stream of air, which allows the coal to be burned at temperatures lower than conventional coal burners. This reduces the nitrogen oxide produced. The limestone absorbs sulfur from the coal, which reduces the sulfur dioxide. 

A detailed description of salt mining will be postponed until the next chapter, but it is important to note that soda ash is made from both limestone and salt, the two major raw materials. As outlined in Fig. 5.2, the brine (salt solution) is mixed with ammonia in a large ammonia absorber. A lime kiln, using technology similar to that discussed earlier, serves as the source of carbon dioxide, which is mixed with the salt and ammonia in carbonation towers to form ammonium bicarbonate and finally sodium bicarbonate and ammonium chloride. Filtration separates the less soluble sodium bicarbonate from the ammonium chloride in solution. 

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