COAL COMBUSTORS

BY PHILIP FINE TWO new coal combustor technologies are being developed that could lower nitrogen oxide (Nox) emissions at a 25 per cent cost saving. Alstom Power Inc. and Praxair Inc presented results from their pilot tests at a recent conference on nitrogen oxide controls conducted by the US government's National Energy Technology Laboratory. The combustors differ from conventional low-Nox burners by NOx being reduced inside the combustor and not in a separate chemical plant, resulting in a less complex and lower cost power plant. The next step will be ...


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