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In countries where fossil fuels have not been readily available, and whose livelihood depends to a great extent on a clean environment, energy generation technologies have been and are continuing to be developed which are acceptable to the community and extensively use renewable energy in various combinations. In this respect, as alternative disposal methods are becoming increasingly more expensive, an economic case for using forestry, agricultural and industrial wastes as fuels can be presented which shows reduced land disposal costs, since waste volume is significantly decreased, reduced primary fuel requirements and an improved environment. Fluidized bed combustion has been shown to be reliableand cost effective.
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Fluidized bed combustors have become the technological choice for power generation from biomass fuels in California. Atmospheric emission data obtained during compliance tests are compared for five operating 18 to 32 MW fluidized bed combustion power plants. The discussion focuses on the impact of fuel properties and boiler design criteria on the emission of pollutants, the efficiency of pollution control devices, and regulations affecting atmospheric emissions. Stack NO(x) emission factors are shown not to vary substantially among the five plants which burn fuels with nitrogen concentrations between 0.3 and 1.1% dry weight. With reference to previous work, it is suggested that fuel nitrogen to NO(x) conversion rates gradually level off at fuel nitrogen concentrations above 0.15%. Prompt NO(x) formation mechanisms are suggested to be important in addition to fuel NO(x) mechanisms, compensating for reduced formation of thermal NO(x) in fluidized bed combustors. This may limit the extent to which NO(x) formation can be controlled in the boiler. All facilities use at least one particular control device, but not all use limestone injection or other control techniques for sulfur and chlorine. The lack of control for chlorine suggests the potential for emission of toxic species due to favorable temperature conditions existing in the particulate control devices, particularly when burning fuels containing high concentrations of chlorine.
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Two anaerobic granular activated carbon (GAC) expanded-bed bioreactors were tested as pretreatment units for the decontamination of hazardous leachates containing volatile and semivolatile synthetic organic chemicals (SOCs). The different characteristics of the two leachate feed streams resulted in one reactor operating in a sulfate-reducing mode and the second in a strictly methanogenic environment. Both reactors were operated with a 6-hr unexpanded empty-bed contact time and achieved SOC removal acceptable for pretreatment units. In both reactors, the majority of the SOCs were removed by biological activity, with GAC adsorption providing stability to each system by buffering against load fluctuations.
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As part of a three year programme to develop the pressurized fluidized-bed hydroretorting (PFH) process for Eastern oil shales, tests were conducted in laboratory-scale batch and continuous units as well as a bench-scale unit (45 kg h-1) to generate a data base for six Eastern shales. Data were collected during PFH processing of raw Alabama and Indiana shales and a beneficiated Indiana shale for environmental mitigation analyses. The data generated include trace element analyses of the raw feeds and spent shales, product oils and sour waters. The sulphur compounds present in the product gas and trace components in the sour water were also determined. In addition, the leaching characteristics of the feed and residue solids were determined. The data obtained were used to evaluate the environmental impact of a shale processing plant based on the PFH process. This paper presents the environmental data obtained from bench-scale tests conducted during the programme.