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CAN CONVENTIONAL POWER GENERATION

CLEAN UP ENOUGH TO CONTRIBUTE TO A
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE?

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CONTENTS

July 2011

CONQUERING EMISSIONS

How the power industry can get a grip on

one of its most toxic topics

FATHOMING FILTRATION

We look at new technologies that aim to

clean up coal-fired plants

Stopgap
or Cop-Out?

CONQUERING EMISSIONS
How the industry can get a grip
on one of its most toxic topics

We talk to industry experts to find

out if carbon capture and storage
can find its place in the worlds
renewable energy future

STOPGAP OR COP-OUT?

FATHOMING FILTRATION

The two sides of the CCS debate

New technologies aim to clean

up coal-fired power plants

THE NEW FACE OF COAL?

China could become a major IGCC player

THE PERFECT STORM

Russia builds on thermal power to tackle

energy demand and emission issues

THE PERFECT STORM

INDUSTRY PROJECTS

Russia builds on thermal power

to tackle emission issues

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Walsum Power Statoin Unit 10
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EMISSIONS
GREENHOUSE GASES AND MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE HAVE OCCUPIED
MUCH OF THE EMISSIONS DISCUSSION OVER THE LAST DECADE. IN LIGHT
OF THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCYS LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT
THAT ENERGY-RELATED CO2 REACHED ITS HIGHEST EVER LEVEL IN 2010,
IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHY, AS DR GARETH EVANS REPORTS

THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY Agency (IEA)

estimates the global total of CO2 emissions in
2010 at 30.6Gt. Representing a rise of five per
cent from 2008, this figure certainly comes as
a shock. At the same time an older issue that
of the need to strictly limit toxic emission from
power plants has also been propelled back
into the limelight recently.

As the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

forges ahead with its proposal to establish the
first-ever federal limits on the power industrys
toxic releases, a wider debate between rivalling
stakeholders about the wisdom, need and
efficacy of attempts to control substances such
as mercury, arsenic and acidic gases is inevitably
destined to heat up.

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SO2 LEVELS IN TODAYS coal-fired power plants

can be reduced by wet flue gas desulphurisation
(wFGD) or spray dryer absorption (SDA); for
example, NOx by selective catalytic reduction
(SCR) and mercury by coal washing. Individually,
though, these measures are not enough and
flue gases need further processing for proper
reductions. One promising technique is J-Power
Entechs regenerative activated coke technology
(ReACT). Combined with other methods, it
retrofits to coal-fired plants to cut SO2 and NOx

to only single-digit ppm levels, comparable with

natural gas fired plants.
ReACT filters out pollutants using activated coke
as a dry regenerable adsorbent, and is inserted
downstream of a primary particulate control
device, typically an ESP or fabric filter (FF). It can
capture more than 98% of any remaining SO2
and SO3, 30% to 60% NOx, 90% mercury and
50% particulates. The technique is interesting
to utilities burning Powder River Basin or other

low-sulphur coals. And, because the process

uses only 1% of the water of conventional wFGD,
it suits sites with difficult water supply, treatment
or discharge.
The procedure even produces salable sulphuric
acid byproducts. It has been used on several
sites in Japan, and demonstrated in the US at
the North Valmy power station by Hamon
Research-Cottrell as part of an Electric Power
Research Institute project.

Advanced Cormetech Technology Solutions (ACTS)

Cormetech, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies SCR catalysts for
power generating equipment and process systems relying on the most
advanced and longest employed SCR technology.

Cormetech offers a range of catalyst management services to the power

generating and process industries including:

Cormetechs SCR catalyst technologies work on the principle of Selective

Catalytic Reduction (SCR) and uniquely benefit from our proprietary
ceramic extrusion technology, and vast worldwide experience in SCR
system design and engineering. Our catalysts are ideal for a variety of
fuels, flue gas properties, particulate characteristics and temperature
ranges. Our catalyst composition minimizes deactivation caused by poisons
such as arsenic and calcium oxide deposits.

Catalyst Inspection Services

Catalyst Testing
Ammonia Injection Grid (AIG) Tuning
Catalyst Restoration
Layer Management
In-situ Catalyst Replacement SM

Key catalyst features include:

High NOx removal capability >95%

Large open area & high surface area
Low SO2 conversion & NH3 slip
High mechanical & thermal performance
High poison resistance
Long catalyst life
Erosion resistance

Catalyst performance and management is a key to the successful

operation of an SCR system. Our catalyst management services help our

customers determine when catalyst layers should be replaced, restored, or
a new layer added, based on catalyst deactivation rates, performance
requirements, and system capabilities. During a thorough performance
audit, we evaluate catalyst advancements available to the customer that
may improve the performance of the unit. Taking advantage of such
product advancements can, in some cases, provide more than a 50%
performance enhancement or cost reduction compared to installing a new
layer of original catalyst.
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STOPGAP
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COP-OUT?
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE PROJECTS ARE
SPRINGING UP ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT THE
TECHNOLOGY HAS ITS DETRACTORS. CHRIS LO
EXAMINES BOTH SIDES OF THE DEBATE AND
ASKS HOW CARBON CAPTURE COULD FIT
INTO THE WORLDS RENEWABLE FUTURE

MINIMISING AND EVENTUALLY ELIMINATING

carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuelled
power generation is a pillar of the effort to limit
the warming of the earths temperature to less
than 2C higher than pre-industrial levels. CO2
represents the vast majority of greenhouse gas
emissions around the world, and around 50%
of man-made CO2 emissions can be traced back
to the burning of fossil fuels in power plants
and factories.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been
touted as the most likely candidate for making
fossil fuel power plants more environmentally
friendly. The technology is based on the idea
of separating CO2 from the flue gas that is a
by-product of fossil fuel combustion and transporting it via pipe or ship to sites where it can be
stored without any release into the atmosphere.
Proponents of the technology point out that
future CCS-enabled power plants could provide
electricity with next to no carbon emissions.
The main appeal of CCS is the potential to make
a positive impact on carbon emissions while
renewable energy generation is refined and
made viable. According to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, CCS could make up
more than half of the global carbon reduction
effort by 2100.
Although on paper CCS seems to be the perfect
stopgap in the challenge to produce energy in a
cleaner way, the technology has its critics. We
examine both sides of the CCS debate and find
out what place this method has in the future
carbon reduction picture.

At the Summit
of sulfur dioxide removal

Todays power plants require advanced air quality control

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performance and the lowest life-cycle cost.
Babcock Powers world-class SCR Technology has already
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operating at industry-leading levels.
Now were near the summit on wet and dry SO2 removal, have
demonstrated that our FGD systems are carbon capture ready,
and can achieve less then 6 mg / Nm3 SO2 while minimizing
energy usage.
We offer multiple wet scrubber designs and have proven
experience with several absorber vessel materials and reagents.
And, when specified, we produce wallboard quality gypsum to
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The next time you need an SO2 scrubber for your plant, join
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CHINA IS HOME TO ONE OF ONLY TWO LARGE-SCALE COAL-FUELLED

IGCC POWER PLANTS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION WORLDWIDE
AND IS WELL-PLACED TO TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE FURTHER
DEVELOPMENT OF THE TECHNOLOGY, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE STILL
SEVERAL CONCERNS TO BE ADDRESSED, WRITES JAMES VARLEY

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CHINA HAS AN abundance of coal and extensive

experience of coal gasification, predominantly for
the production of chemicals. Coal gasification can
be seen as a key part of the Chinese chemicals
industry and crucial to its future growth. A wide
range of gasifier types are employed, both
indigenously developed and imported.
There are, for example, already a few gas turbines
running on syngas at coal-from-chemicals
facilities operated by the Yankuang Group and
the Cathy Coal Chemical Co, both employing
indigenously developed Institute of Clean Coal
Technology (ICCT) opposed multi-burner (OMB)
gasifiers, and at the Fujian oil refinery, which uses
Shell gasifier technology.
However, coal-based integrated gasification
combined cycle (IGCC) and polygeneration has
yet to take off in a big way in China. At one time
there were thought to be around a dozen IGCC /
polygeneration projects at various stages of
planning, but few have survived, with key people
in the government believing the technology not

to be cost-effective compared with large supercritical pulverised coal (PC) plants, which the
Chinese can build quickly and relatively cheaply.
US TECHNOLOGY FOR CHINESE PLANTS
The China Power Investment Corp is reported to
have ambitious coal-fuelled IGCC plans, including
a 2 x 400MW project at Langfang, Hebei, and a
4 x 400MW project that is reportedly proposed
for Yangcheng City, Jiangsu.
A small coal-fuelled IGCC is also supposedly
under consideration in the form of a repowering
project at Guangdong, Dongguan. The first
phase consists of converting two oil-fired 60MW
turbines to run on syngas from a gasifier. The
gasifier design in this case is not Chinese, but
uses transport integrated gasification (TRIG)
technology developed by US firms KBR and
SouthernCompany with support from their
countrys Department of Energy.
KBR announced in 2009 that it had been awarded
a contract by Beijing Guoneng Yinghui Clean
Energy Engineering Co to provide licensing,
engineering services and proprietary equipment
for the project, which is the first commercial

implementation of TRIG. Currently known as the

Dongguan IGCC power plant, according to KBR it
is part of what will eventually be a 920MW IGCC,
to be called the Sun State IGCC power plant.
Technology, this time a compact gasification
concept from US company Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne, is also finding a home in China,
thanks to a joint venture agreement between
Zero Emission Energy Plants (ZEEP), an entrepreneurial US-based clean-energy facility developer,
and Chinas ENN Research & Development Co.
The plan, says ZEEP, is to build a 400t/d demo
gasifier at an existing ENN facility in Zaozhuang
City, Shandong, followed by a commercial-scale
1500t/d plant.

Coal-based
IGCC has yet to
take off in a big
way in China

Its not all good news for the technology, though.

A 200MW coal-fuelled IGCC was planned for
Huadians Banshan site in Hanghzhou, Zhejiang,
but has been cancelled. In fact, the only largescale IGCC currently under construction in China
is GreenGen Phase 1, near Tianjin. Construction
is now underway, with commercial operation
scheduled for late 2011 or early 2012. The idea
is that GreenGen will eventually incorporate
carbon capture and storage.
The first phase of the project, which has Asian
Development Bank funding, consists of a
conventional bituminous coal-fuelled 250MW
IGCC plant utilising a Siemens E-class gas turbine.
The plant is to be upgraded subsequently, to
produce hydrogen and to run a fuel-cell facility
as well as a hydrogen-fired turbine, with an
eventual installed capacity of 400MW and with
CCS also incorporated.
TOWARDS A STANDARDISED IGCC PLANT?
On the vendor side GE remains optimistic that,
in the longer term, its IGCC offering could play
a role in China, building on the success of its
gasification technology in the Chinese chemicalsfrom-coal sector, with 44 facilities now licensed
there. In 2010, GE and China Power Engineering

Current studies
may help to
establish an
IGCC template
for China
Consulting Group (CPECC) signed agreements
with the US Trade and Development Agency
(USTDA), under which the USTDA will fund a
feasibility study on commercial-scale IGCC plants
for the Chinese market based on GE technology.
In the initial study phase, GE and CPECC will
evaluate the cost and performance of an IGCC
design, one aim being to determine the
appropriate configuration and block size.
This may help to establish what Monte Atwell,
general manager for gasification at GE Power
and Water, calls an IGCC template for China.
He points out that this has been the process
followed by China for other technologies, notably
PC power stations. A template is established,
and then widely adopted throughout the country.

The agreements followed the memorandum of

understanding (MoU) signed between CPECC
and USTDA in November 2009 as part of the
US-China Clean Energy Announcements made
by President Obama and President Hu. At the
same time an MoU was also signed by GE and
Shenhua, the worlds biggest coal company,
which has extensive experience in building and
operating gasification facilities and coal-fired
power plants, with the aim of establishing a
gasification joint venture. Key aims of the joint
venture include improving the economics of
gasification and IGCC and deploying commercialscale IGCC plants with carbon capture.
Of particular interest to the Chinese, with their
50Hz grid, is a 50Hz 400MW IGCC design using
a GE 9F syngas turbine. Such a design is being
developed by a consortium of GE and Stanwell
for the proposed Wandoan project in the Surat
Basin, Australia. A candidate for funding under
the Australian Governments CCS Flagship
Program, it has a target operation date of 2015.
In the words of Jason Crew, product line leader
for gasification and IGCC at GE Energy in China,
IGCC is potentially the new face of coal. Whether China wants to take a leadership in this area,
which it certainly could, remains to be seen.

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THE CHALLENGES OF RAPID ECONOMIC EXPANSION AND GLOBAL PRESSURE

TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS HAVE PROMPTED RUSSIA TO MODERNISE
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THERMAL POWER GENERATION has long

been the bread and butter of the Russian power
industry. Russia is home to the worlds largest
natural gas and coal reserves, and the eighth
largest oil reserves, making thermal power
historically the easiest and cheapest way to
produce energy in the country.
With such vast fossil fuel resources, Russia has
had less need to divert investment into other
energy sources than other countries where a
secure non-renewable supply is lacking. This
has led to nearly 70% of Russias electricity
production coming from thermal power sources,
with natural gas alone responsible for 48% of
this. Hydro and nuclear energy together provide
the remaining 30%.
This trend, however, is unlikely to continue
unchecked. A number of drivers have set in
motion major investment in the countrys
thermal power generation infrastructure.
TOWARDS A LOW-CARBON FOOTPRINT
As one of the worlds energy superpowers, global
pressure on the country to reduce its sizeable

carbon footprint has been mounting in recent

years. This has prompted a number of investigations into alternative energy sources, such as
wind, geothermal and solar power. But, given
Russias massive existing thermal power generation capacity, the biggest step towards improving
the countrys carbon footprint could be increasing the efficiency of its thermal generation.
Even without the environmental impetus, years
of under-investment during the Soviet era have
taken their toll on the countrys existing thermal
infrastructure. Much of it is ageing and in dire
need of modernisation to improve its efficiency
and reduce carbon emissions.
In addition, with a rapidly growing economy
comes a booming power market, which will
require new generating capacity in the coming
years. It is estimated that an additional 180GW
of capacity will be required to meet Russias
energy demand by 2020.
All these factors have come together to create
the perfect storm as well as a massive
opportunity for suppliers to the Russian power
market. Step forward Siemens.

It is estimated that an additional 180GW

of capacity will be required to meet
Russias energy demand by 2020

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Comanche
Power Station
Unit 3

XCEL ENERGY IS built its first coalfired electric generating unit in nearly
30 years, a 750MW supercritical
pulverised coal-generating unit at
the Comanche Station near Pueblo,
Colorado, in the US.
Unit 3 at Comanche was completed in
February 2010. With the new addition
to the two existing units that generate
about 660MW. the site provides nearly
1,400MW of electricity. The cost of the
project was estimated to be $1.3bn.
Having won the contract from Xcel
Energy, Alstom designed, built and
commissioned a high-efficiency,
supercritical boiler for the unit.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
supplied the supercritical steam
turbine for the plant.
Comanche unit 3 features advanced
emission controls, with extra controls
fitted on the two existing units at the
plant. These will help reduce overall
emissions of SO2 by 65% and NOx by
30%, despite the doubling in overall
electric generation.
Construction

line has two separate circuits that

are strung on one tower, besides a
path that runs parallel to the existing
facilities. The line has the capacity to
transport 345KV power.

much less over a units life. The high

pressure, high temperature advanced
steam cycle also significantly increases the plants efficiency, minimising
emissions and fuel costs.

The installation of baffle systems is

being carried out at Comanche 3 to
control the whining sound coming
out of the plant. The estimated cost
of the system is $1.5m and it will be
installed inside a chimney of 500ft.

Electricity supply

Low-sulphur coal
Alstoms boiler is the core of one of
the most advanced steam plants to
have been built in the US. It features
Alstoms TFS 2000 firing system and
burns low-sulphur Powder River
Basin coal. This system, coupled with
a selective catalytic reduction system,
has some of the lowest nitrogen oxide
emissions in the USA.
Supercritical units operate at higher
temperatures and pressures than
sub-critical units. The higher pressures increase turbine efficiency and
power output, so that less coal is
used to produce the same amount
of electricity.

Comanche unit 2 started operations in

2008. Power is transported between
While initial capital costs of a superthe Comanche station and the Unit
critical unit are slightly higher than
3 via a new transmission line. The
sub-critical units, the total cost is

Comanche Station is located a

quarter mile from Rocky Mountain
Steel Mills in Pueblo. The steel mill
is the single largest commercial
THE NEW UNIT 3 TAKES THE GENERATING
CAPACITY OF COMANCHE UP TO 1,400MW

account for Xcel Energy in Colorado,

and the only direct electric customer
in the immediate area.
All other electricity generated by
Comanche generates is transported
to the power grid or sold to the
Pueblo-area electric distribution
company Aquila. Aquila is one of
Xcel Energys largest wholesale
customers, purchasing two-thirds
of its power from Xcel Energy.

Walsum
Power Station
Unit 10

THE NEWLY BUILT unit 10 at Walsum

power plant in Dusiburg, Germany,
can generate 750MW of various forms
of energy. Using advanced flue gas
desulphurisation, the hard-coal-fired
cogeneration unit generates electricity, district heating, process steam for
a paper mill and compressed air for
the Walsum coal mine.

and cleaned with a slurry suspension

injected in the counter stream.

ammonium hydroxide is injected and

blended, followed by processing in
a nitrogen oxide reduction (DeNOx )
reactor with rectifier and sootblower.

in a flue gas duct via the cooling

tower, so the plant needs no stack.

In July 2009, a boiler pressure test

was conducted at the plant. The test
Catalysts are at the heart of the
endorsed the boilers ability to endure
DeNOx process, with processes using high pressure. The 106m high boiler
either plate or honeycomb types. The can generate over 600C hot steam
system uses the ammonia and cataunder very high pressure of nearly
lysts to convert the oxides of nitrogen 274 bar. The steam then passes
Hitachi uses selective catalytic
into water and nitrogen. Ash particles through a turbine with an attached
The plants net efficiency is above
reduction (SCR) after combustion to
and dust cling to electrically charged generator that turns the moving
45%, about 5% higher than other
practically eliminate NOx pollution.
plates in the electrostatic precipitator. energy into electrical energy.
German coal-fired power plants. This SCR is normally used between the
increase comes in part from advanced economiser and air heater. Ammonia/ Cleaned flue gases are carried away
material allowing higher boiler steam
CONSTRUCTION
pressures and temperatures. An
efficient 181m tall cooling tower
The joint venture of STEAG and EVN
allows high steam energy utilisation
awarded the contract for the turnkey
in the turbine.
construction to Hitachi Power Europe
(HPE). The contract included a steam
Costing around 820m, unit 10 was
turbine and generator, a large-scale
built by energy company STEAG and
steam generating unit, environmental
infrastructure company EVN. The
protection equipment and structural
plant, commissioned in April 2011,
and civil engineering work including a
can supply enough electricity for a
cooling tower. Hitachi is also handling
city of half a million people.
overall plant engineering, which is
based on a STEAG design.
TECHNOLOGY
Air pollution control in the new plant
includes flue gas desulphurisation
systems. Hitachi uses the quicklime
and limestone process to remove
sulphur dioxide from the flue gases.
The gas is then cooled to saturation
temperature in a flue gas scrubber

The cleaned flue gas is discharged

to the atmosphere through the wet
stack or cooling tower after being
heated in a gas/gas heat exchanger
through a dry stack.

THE NEW UNIT 10 AT DUISBURG-WALSUM CAN

GENERATE 750MW OF VARIOUS FORMS OF ENERGY

The Duisburg-Walsum plant is the

first in Germany to be ordered as a
complete package. Construction
began in 2006 November and created
up to 1,500 jobs in the Ruhr district,
with 60 permanent jobs being created
at the plant.

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Aghada CCGT
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IRELANDS LARGEST POWER

station, Aghada, was opened in May
2010 after the construction of a new
430MW combined-cycle power plant
unit and upgrades to the existing
four units. The plants installed
capacity has increased to 963MW.
Alstom built the 430MW unit for ESB
Power Generation. The plant uses
Alstoms GT26 gas turbine with a
low-NOx environmental burner. The
50Hz GT26 turbine can produce at
59% net efficiency, and is claimed
to be the best for a combined cycle
plant in this class, and a significant

step to 60% net plant efficiency with

the existing engine.
The turnkey order was valued at
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Power Generation, a division of the
Irish state-owned power producer
Electricity Supply Board.
PLANT DETAILS
The plant uses a single KA26
single-shaft combined cycle unit
and integrates in-house core plant
components built around the gas
turbine. It also has a compact reheat
steam turbine and a hydrogen-cooled
TOPGAS generator.
The new turbine optimises factors
such as availability, efficiency, power
output and environmental emissions.
The design uses sequential combustion and a robust, maintenance free,
welded rotor design.
The GT26 achieves an electrical
output of 288MW at an electrical
efficiency of 38% and a heat rate of
9,449kJ/kWh. Exhaust gas flow is
650kg/s and exhaust gas temperature is 616C. NOx emissions are well
below 25vppm.
With three rows of variable guide
vanes on the compressor, the engine

has an exceptional turn down ratio.

Exhaust gas temperature is maintained at the heat recovery steam
generator, so part-load efficiencies
are higher than usual for this class
of engine.
The combination of sequential combustion and the EV burner gives the
engine low emissions across a wide
load range.
The reheat process in sequential
combustion provides optimum
exhaust temperatures for combinedcycle use, the main application of the
GT26 turbine. The two individually
controlled combustor chambers of
the turbine sustain high efficiency
and low emissions at part load by
manipulating the air flow by three
variable guide vanes.
The vanes help cut air mass flow
to 60% of full load level while maintaining the exhaust temperature.
This ensures that the thermodynamic
quality of the sequential combustion
combined-cycle remains nearly
constant, maintaining its high live
steam temperatures. As a result, the
GT26 system efficiency at 50% load,
for example, is 12% better than a
conventional gas turbine combinedcycle power plant.

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WITH AN INSTALLED CAPACITY OF 936MW
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