Krishnan & Associates Inc., recently organized and promoted a seminar for Coal Fired Boiler Technology at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, on “Advancements in Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Technology Providing the Best Solutions for South Africa’s Energy Future”
South African power producers require low cost, environmentally clean yet very reliable baseload power generation that can leverage South Africa's vast indigenous coal resources. Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Boiler Technology has increased its world-wide presence principally due to its highly-desirable fuel flexibility feature combined with significantly reduced air emissions, particularly SOx, NOx and even CO2. The CFB's fuel flexible and low emissions design provide South African 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 South African consumers.
CFB technology also offers several additional commercial advantages. Its inherent low emissions design avoids the cost of installing and operating expensive DeNOx and DeSOx flue gas cleaning equipment while conserving water, another valuable natural resource.
Combining ultra-supercritical CFB boiler technology with biomass co-firing allows plant owners to realize dramatic reductions in net CO2 emissions while keeping electricity production reliability high and cost low. Long-term operating data clearly demonstrates that CFB clean coal technology has a lower forced and planned outage rate and thus higher reliability than conventional coal and biomass combustion technologies. All these benefits should be very attractive for the South African energy industry.
The CFB boiler option can be applied to both new greenfield plants, as well as, existing plants as a repowering option. Repowering the steam side of an existing or retired coal-fired plant is a much lower cost option than building a new greenfield plant since a lot of the plant’s existing infrastructure can be reused, yet the same improvements to the plant operating cost, reliability and environmental performance can be achieved.
Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW), the world leaders in CFB technology, is proud to extend a personal invitation to you to attend our free Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Boiler Technology Seminar on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm (including lunch) at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Meeting Room 1.43 – 4 (First level of CTICC) Cape Town, South Africa