Pollution control electrical power

Facilities for separating steam from brine and for power generation were designed by mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineers. Dissolved salts in the brine cause severe scaling and corrosion in wells and pipelines. Chemists and chemical engineers developed new production techniques to overcome these problems, as well as pollution control technology for the operation. 

Clean Air Act (CAA) was first passed in 1955 as the Air Pollution Control, Research and Technical Assistance Act and amended in 1963 to become the CAA. A more significant statute was passed in 1970 and amended in 1977 and 1990. It provides EPA authority to regulate air pollutants from a wide variety of sources including automobiles, electric power plants, chemical plants, and other industrial sources. 

In conclusion, whole-tire-to-energy power plants with a reciprocating grate system and state-of-the-art air pollution controls have proven practical, both in the U.S. and West Germany. With the completion of the Sterling plant, there will be the capacity in the U.S. to turn 14 million tires per year into electricity. It must be emphasized that two keys to successful operation of such plants are proximity to tire sources and adequate buy-back rates for the electricity generated by the plants. 

Sometimes the opposite is also the case, that is, the boiler itself restricts the type of flue gas treatment system that can be installed. Most electric power generating facilities have coal specifications required by the boiler design and the manufacturer s warranty. These sulfur and ash specifications are designed to optimize boiler performance and avoid fatigue of boiler materials. Boiler design and coal specifications can limit the type of system that can be applied. The construction date of a boiler determines the level of pollutant control required, and it also goes far toward determining the type of flue gas treatment system that can achieve this level of emissions control. 

Air Pollution Control. A number of processes use ammonia for scrubbing sulfur oxides (SOx) and/or nitrogen oxides (NOx) from industrial and electrical power plant stack gases.57... 

There are other secondary agreements covering lease or sale of land, finance etc as well as statutory consents such as planning, integrated pollution control, consents to build a power station, licence to generate electricity etc. 

Table III summarizes the basic plant operating requirements in terms of utilities, manpower, and ash disposal. Electric power consumption figures are provided for three different system designs simple incineration without heat recovery or an air pollution control device, incineration with heat recovery but no air pollution control device, and incineration with both heat recovery and air pollution control (stack gases filtered through a baghouse).

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