FGD and
DeNOx   NEWSLETTER     

                                                                                                              January 2004
                                                                                                                    No. 309

REGULATORY NEWS

• Interstate Air Quality Rule Means Lots of Scrubbers and Some SCR

• EPA Proposes Options for Significantly Reducing Mercury Emissions from Electric Utilities  

• NJ Announces Mercury Rule

• New Irish Regulations for Large Boilers

NO_x

• Papco Expansion Joints at JH Campbell 3 and Handley 3

• Low NO_x Levels (0.04 lbs/MMBtu) Now Being Obtained 

• Popcorn Ash Plugging in SCR Operation

• Praxair’s Oxygen-Enhanced Technology Achieved 0.18 lb/MMBtu NO_x

• Coal Preheater Process for NO_x Reduction 

FGD

• Cinergy and AEP Scrubber Programs Will Probably Not be Revised Based on New Rules 

• Limestone Grinding for FGD Systems

INDUSTRY NEWS

• Quadrotech Supplies SCR Reagents

• Headwaters’ Ammonia Slip Mitigation Technology

• Fuel Tech's Urea-Based SCR Reagent Feed System

• Nooter/Eriksen Given EnviroScrub License