Flue Gas Desulfurization

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Flue Gas Desulfurization: - A technology that employs a sorbent, usually lime or limestone, to remove sulfur dioxide from the gases produced by burning fossil fuels. Flue gas desulfurization is current state-of-the art technology for major SO2 emitters, like power plants.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Flue Gas Desulfurization::

Siemens Water Technologies to Supply System for Treating Flue Gas ...  -  Jul 22, 2008
Verivox (Pressemitteilung),22.07.2008 - Reliant Energy has selected Siemens Water Technologies to provide a system to treat wastewater from a Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD)

Flue gas desulfurization process flow enhanced with Chemineer products  -  Jul 14, 2008
Environmental Expert (press release),Chemineer offers various products designed to enhance the Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) process flow. Globally, Chemineer is a leading supplier of mixing

DOE to provide $36 mill to advance carbon dioxide capture  -  Aug 1, 2008
Electric Light & Power/ Utility Automation & Engineering T&D Magazine,...of nitrogen oxides will be reduced by greater than 90 percent without the need for wet flue gas desulfurization and selective catalytic reduction.

Yokogawa Consortium Wins Pollution Control Systems Order for ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
European Investor,The company is the largest provider of control systems for industrial flue gas desulfurization facilities in the Japanese market, where flue gas

Siemens To Supply FGD Scrubber Wastewater Treatment System At  -  Jul 23, 2008
Water Online (press release),Warrendale, PA — Reliant Energy has selected Siemens Water Technologies to provide a system to treat wastewater from a Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD)

Environmental Energy Services (EES) Succeeds Again With Tests ...  -  Jul 9, 2008
MarketWatch...(EES) has also successfully demonstrated its method for suppression of elemental mercury re-emission from wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems.

Siemens to build Pennsylvania wastewater treatment facility  -  Jul 22, 2008
IJ Online,Reliant Energy has selected Siemens to provide a system to treat wastewater from a Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) scrubber being constructed at the Keystone

DPL-Managed Scrubber Construction Program Completed  -  Jul 14, 2008
MarketWatchScrubbers, technically referred to as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) units, remove almost all sulfur dioxide from power plant emissions.

Solucorp's IFS-2C Mercury Emission Control Technology Successfully ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
MarketWatchNC-based CoaLogix, has been successfully demonstrated at two coal fired power plants using wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems.

Mason County Landfill still under state DWM notice  -  Jul 11, 2008
Ledger Independent,According to the report, landfill operators have removed the flue gas desulfurization waste material that had run over the constructed soil berm at the toe

Wisconsin Energy Corporation Q2 2008 Earnings Conference Call ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
Seeking Alpha,On July 10, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission issued a final decision allowing us to build wet flue gas desulfurization and selective catalytic

CLP wins India power project  -  Jul 24, 2008
The Standard,...produce the same amount of electricity for using less coal, and other advanced emission control equipment such as flue gas desulfurization facilities.

DPL-Managed Scrubber Construction  -  Jul 15, 2008
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung),Scrubbers, technically referred to as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) units, remove almost all sulfur dioxide from power plant emissions.

What about Gore’s challenge to drop oil altogether?  -  Jul 23, 2008
Nieman Watchdog Blog,Only about a third of that plant capacity had scrubbers, or flue-gas desulfurization, a technology which was available and state-of-the-art a

Controversy dogs US clean coal industry  -  Jul 23, 2008
EnergyCurrent,A popular method is scrubbing, or flue gas desulfurization, where a processing unit at a power plant uses a wet slurry of absorbent material or an injection

Belzona, Inc. Announces Solution to Erosion-Corrosion Control in ...  -  Nov 15, 2007
PR Web (press release),...a leader in the erosion-corrosion control industry, announces a novel solution to control erosion and corrosion in wet flue gas desulfurization units.

Combating Corrosion within Power Generation Facilities  -  Nov 7, 2007
Utility Products Magazine,By using Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) scrubber technology and heat recovery units, utilities have lowered flue gas temperatures and increased condensation

Project powers changes  -  Nov 15, 2007
Uniontown Herald Standard,The scrubber, technically known as a flue-gas desulfurization system, will remove 95 percent of the sulfur dioxide and reduce particulates and mercury that

Prince George’s among worst polluting counties  -  Nov 28, 2007
Business Gazette,Allen said the company also is working on a flue-gas desulfurization system that would remove up to 95 percent of the sulfur oxide emissions.

Air quality control project progressing at Plant Lowman  -  Nov 21, 2007
South Alabamian,Construction is complete on the new flue gas desulfurization unit - commonly called a "scrubber" - which removes sulfur dioxide from flue gases.

Pollutants in Wild Freshwater Fish Pose Public Health Risks  -  Nov 8, 2007
Environment News ServiceReliant announced last year it will spend $250 million to install a flue gas desulfurization scrubber at Cheswick. Volz said, "We believe it is important

Coal Being Mined By Remote Control  -  Nov 8, 2007
Wheeling News Register,AEP’s Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization systems, or scrubbers, use chemical and mechanical processes to remove sulfur dioxide from gas produced by burning coal,

Scrubbers driving emissions down at local plant  -  Nov 4, 2007
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle,By JIMMY SETTLE At tva's Cumberland Fossil Plant in nearby Cumberland City, a flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system is helping to drive down the volume of

Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited Reports Contracts Awarded to ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
CNNMoney.comThis creates a huge market potential for flue gas desulfurization (FGD) equipment. As an associated company, Blue sky will be a profit contributor for our

Shaw Group Signs $1.1B Scrubber Contract  -  Aug 7, 2007
Forbes,The company's fossil division of its Shaw Power Group will install flue gas desulfurization units, designed to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions,

Shaw Group agrees to retrofit Mirant plants—  -  Aug 9, 2007
WMDT,Under the deal signed with Mirant Mid-Atlantic and Mirant Chalk Point, Shaw will install flue gas desulfurization units, at the Chalk Point, Morgantown and

Business Briefs for Aug. 8, 2007  -  Aug 7, 2007
2TheAdvocate,Under the deal signed with Mirant Mid-Atlantic LLC and Mirant Chalk Point LLC, Shaw will install flue gas desulfurization units, which are designed to

Black & Veatch announces startup of largest CT-121 scrubber project  -  Jul 27, 2007
Construction and Maintenance News,...successful start-up of the largest CT-121 wet flue gas desulfurization system (scrubber) project in North America at the DP&L-operated Killen Station.

EPA challenges SWEPCO modeling  -  Jul 27, 2007
Hope Star,Robinson's July 13 letter also challenged SWEPCO's rationale for the use of Dry Flue Gas Desulfurization technology as the Best Available Control Technology

Shaw Group Finalizes Contract For $1.1 Bln Scrubber Projects [SGR]  -  Aug 7, 2007
RTT News,The company said, retrofit would comprise flue gas desulfurization units, which are designed to significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.

Shaw Finalizes Contract for $1.1 Billion Scrubber Projects at ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Business Wire (press release),The retrofit will include flue gas desulfurization units, which are designed to significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. Completion of the retrofit

Two Parrish plants need scrubbers  -  Jul 30, 2007
Sarasota Herald-Tribune,Flue gas desulfurization systems, or "scrubbers," are highly effective in the removal of sulfur dioxide. SO2 is a major contributor to soot levels.




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