Industry Perspectives: CFB Boiler Technology

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CFB boiler technology has increased its world-wide presence principally due to its fuel flexibility feature combined with significantly reduced air emissions, particularly SOx, NOx and CO2. The CFB’s fuel flexible and low emissions design provide power producers the ability to utilize the lowest cost coal, petcoke, coal slurry, lignite, washery rejects and biomass in variable mix combinations, to produce the lowest possible power cost for their consumers. CFB technology also offers several additional commercial advantages. Its inherent low emissions design avoids the cost of installing and operating DeNOx and DeSOx flue gas cleaning equipment while conserving water. Combining ultra-supercritical CFB boiler technology with biomass co-firing allows plant owners to realize reductions in net CO2 emissions while keeping reliability high and costs low. Long-term operating data demonstrates that CFB clean coal technology has a lower forced and planned outage rate and thus higher reliability than conventional pulverized coal and stoker type biomass combustion technologies. The CFB boiler option can be applied to both new greenfield plants and existing plants as a repowering option. Repowering the steam side of an operating or retired coal-fired plant is a lower cost option than building a new greenfield plant. Without the need for construction of new infrastructure, the more reliable CFB boiler can be used to reduce operating cost and emissions

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