Open AccessAmmonia-Free NOx Control System
Author(s) -
Song Wu,
Zhen Fan,
Andrew Seltzer,
R.G. Herman
Publication year - 2005
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/896959
Subject(s) - nox , flue gas , combustor , combustion , waste management , boiler (water heating) , ammonia , pulverized coal fired boiler , environmental science , chemistry , process engineering , engineering , coal , organic chemistry
Research is being conducted under United States Department of Energy (DOE) Contract DE-FC26-03NT41865 to develop a new technology to achieve very low levels of NOx emissions from pulverized coal fired boiler systems by employing a novel system level integration between the PC combustion process and the catalytic NOx reduction with CO present in the combustion flue gas. The combustor design and operating conditions will be optimized to achieve atypical flue gas conditions. This approach will not only suppress NOx generation during combustion but also further reduce NOx over a downstream catalytic reactor that does not require addition of an external reductant, such as ammonia