2010 Fluidized Bed Combustion Proceedings

FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION XXIII CONFERENCE / May 24-26, 2010

TECHNICAL SEMINAR – SELECTED PAPERS


1.   Conference Summary
Carl R. Bozzuto, ALSTOM Power, Inc.

 

A. Fundamentals of CFB Combustion & CFB Design
Carl R. Bozzuto, ALSTOM Power, Inc.

 

B. REVIEW OF CONCURRENT FORUM DISCUSSIONS
B.1 Informal Owners’ Only Forum – (See Summary)
B.2 Informal Equipment and Service Suppliers’ Only Forum – (See Summary)

 

C. OWNERS’ SURVEY & BENCHMARKING
C.1 Presentation of 2009 FBC Owners’ Survey & Benchmarking Results
Jack A. Fuller, West Virginia University
Carmine Gagliardi, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

 

D. ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE WORKSHOP
D.1 Overview and Air Permitting Issues (in summary)
William C. Campbell III, AECOM Environment

 

E. REGULATORY PANEL
E.1.a Climate Change and GHG Reporting
Kathy Blue, Trinity Consultants
E.1.b CAIR II and Utility Boiler MACT
William C. Campbell III, AECOM Environment
E.2 EPA and CCB’s
Gary Merritt, Inter-Power/AhlCon Partners, L.P.
E.3 Cost of “Proving” Regulatory Compliance at Ebensburg Power
Gary Anderson, Ebensburg Power

 

F. PRESENTATION & PANEL DISCUSSION / ALTERNATIVE FUELS
Moderator:   Robin Mills Ridgway, Purdue University
F.1 Co-Firing Biofuels in ADM’s Cedar Rapids CFB
John Thalhauser & Jason Freeman, Archer Daniels Midland Company
F.2 Stockton CoGen Biomass Experience
Carmine Gagliardi, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
F.3 Experiences with Alternative Fuels (See Summary)
Robert Bibb, Bibb Engineers, Architects & Constructors
Raymond Ganga, McBurney Corporation

 

G. OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE and OPTIMIZATION
Moderator:   John Malloy, AC Power Colver Operations
G.1 Controlling Limestone Bed/Feed Distribution for Improved Utilization
Steve McCaffrey, Greenbank Energy Solutions
G.2 Combustion Airflow Measurement & Control on CFB Boilers
Steve Storm & Adam McClellan, Storm Technologies, Inc.
G.3 Case Study: Boiler Air & Limestone Optimization
Fred Farabaugh, AC Power Colver Operations
G.4 Using UpTime to Detect a Boiler Leak at the University of Iowa
Ben Fish, University of Iowa
Sean Gordon, Clear View Monitoring Solutions
G.5 Fluid-Bed Technology Comparison
Phil McKenzie, The Babcock & Wilcox Company

 

H. ABSORBANTS
H.1 Lime Kiln Dust CFB Injection Results
Carl Laird, Carmeuse
H.2 Calcium Based Sorbents for MACTing Up Your FBC Boiler
Howard Fitzgerald, Lhoist North America
H.3 Dry Sorbent Injection of Sodium Sorbents for Multi-pollutant Control
Heidi E. Davidson, Solvay Chemicals Inc.

 

I. BACKEND NOx, SOx & TOXICS
I.1 Air Emission Compliance Solutions for FBC Units
David South, SPE/Amerex
I.2 Use of Activated Carbon for Mercury & Dioxin Control on Fluidized Bed Boilers
Richard Miller, ADA Environmental Solutions
I.3 Dry Circulating Fluidized Bed Scrubber Technology
Peter Honeycutt, Kiewit Power Engineers
I.4 NOx Reductions, Sox Reductions and Sorbent Optimization with the Nalco Mobotec ROFA/Rotamix System on Two 173MW CFBs
Jay Crilley, NALCO Mobotec

 

J. PLANT TOUR OVERVIEWS – JEA and Rayonier
J.1 JEA FBC Unit & Boiler Tube Surface Analysis Case Study
Steve Cooper and John Kang, JEA
J.2 Rayonier FBC Unit & Operation
John Vonnoh, Rayonier