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· “Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion” is the “Hot Topic Hour” for January 10, 2013
· McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
· Headlines for the December 21, 2012 – Utility E-Alert
· $80 Billion Market to Upgrade Old U.S Coal-fired Power Plants
· Biomass Projects Move Forward Around the World
“Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion” is the “Hot Topic Hour” for January 10, 2013
Oxy-fuel combustion may offer the fossil fueled power producing utility industry the solution to a number of significant problems – mandated GHG reduction, regulations requiring near zero emissions of a growing number of pollutants, high capital costs of flue gas cleaning equipment and increasing fuel and operating costs. When used in a pulverized coal-fired boiler, the oxy-fuel process produces a concentrated stream of CO2 which may allow the CO2 to be captured for use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects or underground storage in a more cost effective manner compared to post combustion capture of CO2 from an air-fired boiler. In addition, when the process is optimized, it could significantly reduce the emissions of all regulated pollutants from the stack gases. The oxy-fuel technology is less complex than other clean coal technologies and the process can be retrofit to existing coal-fired power plants or incorporated into new power plant designs. In either case, the adoption of oxy-fuel combustion could be more cost effective and require less capital than a conventional power plant with all of the extra air pollution control equipment required to meet current and future emission limits. Also if oxy-fuel combustion is combined with circulating fluidized bed technology, it should allow the combustion of a wide range of fuels including co-firing of all forms of biomass, sludge and waste with coal or as the only fuel.
The following speakers will update us on the status of oxy-fuel combustion technology, describe their experience with the design, construction and operation of new or retrofit fossil fueled power plants utilizing oxy-fuel combustion and discuss the costs and benefits associated with utilization of oxy-fuel combustion in both retrofit of existing power plants and new construction and how these costs and benefits related to fuel type. They will also describe any new equipment designs, technology and systems being developed to improve oxy-fuel combustion, discuss the research and development that must be conducted to perfect this technology and address how the oxy-fuel technology compares to other technologies under development and testing to achieve “zero emissions” and reduce GHGs.
Robert Gagliano, Combustion Group Manager at Air Liquide - Delaware Research and Technology Center or Chendhil Periasamy, will present an “Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion System Design for Natural Gas-fired Power Plants with Flue Gas Recirculation”. They will describe the latest developments on oxy-fuel combustion system design for power plants firing natural gas. Key design considerations for burner and combustion system of the boiler island will be discussed. The role of flue gas recirculation ratio in reducing NOx will also be highlighted. The use of computer modeling in supporting burner design and pilot scale testing will be explained.
Keith L. Pronske, President and Chief Executive Officer at Clean Energy Systems
Richard Axelbaum, Ph.D., Director of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization and Professor of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, will present “Staged Pressurized Oxy-Combustion for Next Generation Carbon Capture and Storage”. His talk will describe a novel system for carbon capture and storage (CCS) wherein coal and oxygen are combusted in stages under pressure. This approach increases plant efficiency and is expected to reduce the cost of electricity as it addresses a number of the challenges associated with traditional oxy-combustion for carbon capture.
Robert (Bob) Marrs, ThermoEnergy Power Systems, LLC
To register for the Hot Topic Hour, on January 10, 2013, click on:
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McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
On Thursday at 10 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers.
Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report.
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January 10 |
Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion |
Power |
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January 17 |
Production of Fertilizer and Sulfuric Acid at Coal-fired Power Plants |
Power |
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January 24 |
Gypsum Dewatering |
Power |
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January 31 |
Filter media (forecasts and market drivers for media used in air, gas, liquid, fluid applications, both mobile and stationary). |
Market Intelligence |
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February 7 |
Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment Facilities |
Power |
To register for the Hot Topic Hour, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.
Headlines for the December 21, 2012 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1105– December 21, 2012
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Next E-Alert January 4, 2013
Table of Contents
POWER GEN
COAL – US
COAL – WORLD
§ Tata Power to adapt Trombay 6 Power Plant in India to also fire Coal
§ Malaysia’s Energy Commission floats Tender for Two Coal-fired Power Plants (1,000 MW and 2,000 MW)
§ E.ON shuts UK 1,940 MW Kingsnorth Power Station, warns of Generating Gap
§ Sumitomo to build 2 x 30 MW Power Plants for Antam in Indonesia
§ Videocon cancels 1200 MW Power Plant at Jamuria, West Bengal, India
§ Coal will rival Oil as Top Source of Energy: IEA
§ Alstom to retrofit the Low Pressure Steam Turbines at Eskom’s Kriel in South Africa
GAS/OIL - US
§ Siemens to supply H-Class Gas Turbines for Port Everglades Upgrade
§ GE contracted for Golden Spread Electric Coop. Texas Power Plants
§ Consumers Energy plans New 700 MW Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in Michigan
GAS/OIL – WORLD
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
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$80 Billion Market to Upgrade Old U.S Coal-fired Power Plants
Over the next ten years operators of coal-fired power plants will spend $80 billion to upgrade their existing power plants. This is the prediction in the McIlvaine report, Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
The U.S. upgrade market will be driven by the following factors:
· Coal will again become the low cost power option
· Building new coal-fired power plants will be difficult
· Automation will reduce operating costs
· Environmental rules will require more air pollution control
· Water quality issues will require cooling and treatment investments
Estimates range from 200,000 to 250,000 MW of coal-fired capacity remaining in place as opposed to the 300,000 MW in place in 2005. A conservative estimate is for 200,000 MW of capacity to spend a minimum of $400/kW for upgrades. This is only 15 percent of the cost of a new coal-fired power plant and will therefore be an attractive option.
Coal will become the low cost alternative because gas prices in the U.S. will rise to international levels which in turn will be set by the price of oil. If the extraction cost of gas remains low, it will be converted to LNG or liquids, so low cost gas for power generation is temporary.
The U.S. will apparently remain the only country which will regulate to prevent new clean coal-fired power plants while continuing to operate the older power plants. But this oddity means that there will be a big investment in these old power plants.
Operators will be motivated to cut operating costs including the amount of coal consumed per unit of power produced. Optimization, automation and the most modern digital control systems will provide not only increased energy efficiency but reduced labor costs and many other enterprise management benefits.
Upgrades to decrease air emissions will continue to be driven by a series of regulations. Over the next ten years, the older power plants will find themselves subject to the same stringency level as new power plants. Most power plants will make a series of investments over this period. Some will be obsolesced by the next stringency level. This will raise the total cost of compliance.
Older power plants with ponds will be forced to invest in technologies resulting in dry solid wastes. Those with once-through cooling will be required to invest in cooling towers and recirculation systems.
For more information on Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#n043.
Biomass Projects Move Forward Around the World
The latest information on Biomass Plants is covered in McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Projects and Update.
Atikokan Generating Station Biomass Conversion Project Boosts Northern Economy
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is proceeding with construction of the $170-million Atikokan Generating Station (GS) biomass conversion project.
With over 200 MW of capacity, Atikokan GS will be one of the largest biomass plants in North America and will generate renewable, dispatchable, peak capacity power. The project will create about 200 construction jobs and help to protect existing jobs at the plant.
The project includes plant modifications to provide peak capacity and the construction of a fuel storage and handling system that can handle up to 90,000 tonnes of biomass fuel annually.
AeCON has been selected for design and construction of the fuel handling and storage systems and Doosan for the combustion modifications. The project is expected to be completed in 2014.
Biomass will be the only fuel used at Atikokan in the future. All of OPG’s thermal plants will cease using coal by the end of 2014.
Ence Signs the Project Finance and the EPC Contract for its Mérida Biomass Power Plant
Ence has closed a Project Finance for a total of €60.7 million to finance its new Mérida biomass power plant, an operation which has been coordinated by Banesto as the agent bank, and in which La Caixa and BBVA also take part. This is the second operation of this type performed in Spain for the financing of a biomass plant, after the operation performed last year, also by Ence, for its Huelva plant, which will start operation this year.
Ence had also signed the EPC contract with Sener, which guarantees project execution as regards costs, quality and the timeframe. The total plant investment amounts to €80.9 million.
Ignacio Colmenares, Ence CEO, said, “the project will enable one of the largest renewable biomass power plants in Spain to start operation in the 3rd quarter of 2014 in Mérida with a nominal power of 20 MW, and will provide a recurring EBITDA of €10 million/year, with an estimated production up to 160 million kWh/year, that is enough to meet the electricity needs of around 150,000 people.”
Nexterra, UBC and GE Celebrate the Opening of Groundbreaking Renewable Biomass CHP System
Nexterra Systems Corp., the University of British Columbia and GE celebrated the successful completion of an energy-from-renewable-waste combined heat and power (CHP) system located at UBC’s Vancouver campus. This is North America’s first commercial demonstration of a transformative system that combines Nexterra’s gasification and syngas conditioning technologies with one of GE’s high-efficient Jenbacher internal combustion engines.
GE’s Jenbacher gas engine will produce 2 MW of clean, renewable electricity that will offset UBC’s existing power consumption, enough to power approximately 1,500 homes. The Nexterra system will also generation 3 MW of thermal energy, enough steam to displace up to 12 percent of UBC’s natural gas consumption. This will reduce UBC’s greenhouse gas emissions by up to 5,000 tonnes per year which is the equivalent of taking more than 1,000 cars off the road.
Using Nexterra’s proven gasification technology platform and innovative gas cleanup and thermal cracking solution, the system converts locally-sourced waste wood into a clean, reliable gas that is suitable for use in a high-efficiency, industrial-scale gas engine to produce heat and power. The system will deliver global electrical efficiencies that are 25 percent higher than traditional methods for producing biomass-based electricity at this scale.
Envirotherm and ZeroPoint Clean Tech to Build New Biomass Power Plants
Envirotherm, an Allied Technologies company, and ZeroPoint Clean Tech, a biomass gasification technology company, have announced they will join forces to build turnkey biomass power plants. These combined heat and power (CHP) plants are the first standardized biomass gasification plants in the global renewable energy market to be fully EPC delivered with performance warranties. Two plants are currently operational in Europe and construction on the first of the next eight projects is expected to begin before year-end. The plants range in size from 2 to 20 MW. The combined effort to create full EPC delivery of a standardized solution for biomass gasification plants includes relationships with world-leading OEM vendors, project financiers, feedstock and recovered wood suppliers as well as with vendors of after-market services.
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