How to Control Coal Fired Steam Boilers Air Pollution?

How to Control Coal Fired Steam Boilers Air Pollution?

As we all know, coal is a fossil fuel and it produces harmful gases to the air. Air pollution has always been a serious environmental problem. The combustion of fuels, especially in power plant boilers or large scale cfb boiler, provides the large part of earth’s energy needs. Despite providing useful heat to generate power, there are unwanted byproducts generating from the process, which are the stack gases. Normally, the unwanted byproducts will pollute the environment. Gaseous pollutants are SO2, NOx. Coal fired steam boiler is out of date and we must seek for a new type industrial steam boiler applied in power plant.
The pollution from industrial boilers
Most sulfur dioxide is formed from sulfur in the fuel, therefore, solid fuel especially coal generally produces higher levels of sulfur dioxide than oil. Natural gas gives the lowest level for comparable furnace condition. Sulfur dioxide is the most damaging air pollutant produced by boiler combustion because it is the leading source of acid rain. At high temperature, nitrogen combines with oxygen to form NOx during a finite period of time. Nitrogen oxide could accelerate the formation of acid rain. Besides, it is also the main source of photochemical smog. It also depletes the ozone layer and may contribute to the global warming. It is also harmful to human health.
Methods to control pollution
There are two main ways to reduce sulfur dioxide, reducing SO2 before combustion and removal from the flue gas. The first method is using low-sulfur fuel such as natural gas, which can reduce sulfur greatly, even to near zero. Many power plants prefer moving the sulfur out of coal before combustion with desulfurization plant, by using limestone to absorb sulfur gas to reduce the sulfur content of coal by 80%.
Low NOx burners could reduce NOx emissions by 50% by decreasing the peak temperatures and the time nitrogen spends at higher temperatures. The fluidized bed coal fired boiler, designed with low-temperature...

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