BIOS and ABSTRACTS – MARCH 10, 2011

 

 

RUSSELL PRICE – STANLEY CONSULTANTS, INC.

 

 

BIO: Russ Price is a vice president and marketing manager for Stanley Consultants Inc.  He is well-versed in the design of boiler systems and emission control equipment.  Russ has a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA from the University of Iowa, and is a licensed professional engineer in six states.

 

ABSTRACT: The presentation will present an approach to defining options and creating a compliance plan.

 

 

MACK McGUFFEY – TROUTMAN SANDERS

 

 

BIO: Mack McGuffey practices environmental law as an associate in Troutman Sanders' Atlanta office and specializes in regulatory compliance under the Clean Air Act. He represents electric utility and industrial clients on a number of important air quality issues, including New Source Review, Title V Operating Permits, Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards, and Regional Haze and is a member of Troutman Sanders' Climate Change and Renewable Energy Practice Teams. Mack also has experience in enforcement action and litigation matters as well, and has helped defend clients against a wide variety of environmental claims.

 

ABSTRACT: Despite its request for even more time to promulgate new emission standards for boilers, EPA was required by court order to issue its final rule to implement the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers and process heaters.  EPA's final rule imposes a Maximum Achievable Control Standard for five hazardous air pollutants or surrogates of hazardous air pollutants emitted from those sources, and will potentially require the installation of costly new pollution control equipment within a maximum expected compliance deadline of three years from the effective date of the rule.  The presentation will provide a brief overview of the MACT program generally, explain how EPA's final Industrial Boiler MACT standards differ from the ones it originally proposed, and describe some of the legal issues associated with the EPA's final rule.

 

 

EDMUND SCHINDLER – COMBUSTION COMPONENTS ASSOCIATES, INC.

 

 

BIO: Edmund Schindler - Vice President, Utility Sales, BSCHE. Mr. Schindler brings over 30 years of combustion and emission control experience. He had various positions at RJM, TODD Combustion, Fuel Tech and Foster Wheeler dealing with low NOx combustion, burners, OFA systems, SNCR systems. He also played a key role in new product development initiatives including the commercialization of the Rich Reagent Injection (RRI) technology.  Mr. Schindler has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY and is a regular speaker at various conferences on emission control technologies.

 

ABSTRACT: Strategies for Reducing CO in Boilers

CCA Ed Schindler will present various strategies for reducing CO in exiting boilers starting with the current regulations then, the strategies.  They will include CFD, burner tuning, burner modification, Fuel and Air Balance, atomizers and fuel injectors and SCR.

 

 

STEVE BALOGA – SHAW GROUP

 

BIO: Steve Baloga, P.E., is one of Shaw's Senior Environmental Consultants. Steve has more than twenty five years experience as an Air Quality consultant, and engineer. 

 

ABSTRACT: The NESHAP ICI Boiler MACT will create significant challenges too many

industrial boiler operators over the next 36 months, as they decide what they will do to comply with lowered emission standards.  Shaw has recently introduced several new technologies that provide an effective low cost solution to help achieve the new lower limits. Several boiler trails have proved the viability of these low cost technologies.

 

 

AJAY KASARABADA and DIANE FISCHER – BLACK & VEATCH

 

BIO:  Ajay Kasarabada:  Ajay is an Air Permitting Manager in Black & Veatch Energy Division's Environmental Management Services Section. Mr. Kasarabada has a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from India and a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing. Mr. Kasarabada is also a registered professional engineer in the State of Michigan. His primary responsibilities include managing air permitting projects that include air permitting strategy development, negotiations with state regulatory agencies, conducting control technology assessments related to BACT and MACT, conducting air quality related emission calculations, managing dispersion modeling studies, and permit applicability determinations for both major and minor sources that include electric power generating facilities, industrial sources, and wastewater treatment plants.  

 

BIO: Diane Fischer:  Diane serves as Manager of Business Development for Air Quality Control projects for Black & Veatch’s Power Generation Services.  She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and is a registered Mechanical Engineer in Missouri.  Diane has been mainly involved with AQC compliance projects. Her background includes leading compliance studies, supporting detailed design of air quality control projects with technical and process support, and maintaining updated knowledge of the regulatory environment associated with air quality compliance. She has also served as the SCR Technical Manager for SCR projects. In this role, she was responsible for oversight of technical process issues for Black & Veatch’s SCR projects.

 

ABSTRACT:  The Non-Solid Fuel Pathway for Compliance with Boiler MACT

 

To comply with the final Boiler MACT rule, owners and operators of affected facilities can explore the following two primary pathways:

 

*       Continue firing coal and/or biomass (solid fuel) in the boilers and utilize post-combustion control/combustion improvements to meet the future emission limitations.

 

*       Cease combusting coal/biomass as a fuel and switch the current fuel mix from solid fuels to gaseous fuels that are fired either in the existing boilers or in new cogeneration systems that utilize gas fired combustion turbines.

 

The Boiler MACT was finalized on February 21, 2011 and the EPA has initiated an automatic reconsideration of these rules.   It is very likely that as part of the reconsideration or other legal actions, the final rule and the target emission levels could change in the future.  Owners and operators of affected facilities that are wary of this regulatory uncertainty can look into the non-solid fuel pathway for compliance.  Boilers combusting Gas 1 or other Gas 1 fuels are exempt from meeting the Boiler MACT emission limits. Similarly gas fired combustion turbines are not affected by the MACT rules. In other words, Boiler MACT emission limits (currently final or potentially revised later) are not a driver for these gaseous fuel fired generation alternatives.  However, these systems will need to not only replace the existing generation but also be in place and be up and running before the Boiler MACT compliance date (Spring 2014).  The overall objective of the presentation is to explore the non-solid fuel pathway for compliance with Boiler MACT which includes gas conversion and cogeneration.  This presentation will highlight some of the technical and economic issues that will have to be considered while evaluating the non-solid fuel pathway for Boiler MACT compliance.