Francisco Rodriguez Barea

 INTRODUCTION  Increasingly stringent environmental legislation is requiring the coal power sector to install high-efficiency abatement technologies. In this regard, the South African Air Quality Act 2004 establishes new NOX emission standards to be applied in the period 2015-2020. At the same time, this sector is also required to take into

ABSTRACT Power sector is currently seeking for the cost-effective minimization of NOx emissions. This demanding challenge has been met by INERCO through a technological approach successfully applied in a European coal-fired power plant, whose scope and results are hereinafter described. Firstly, advanced combustion technologies lead to a maximum intensification of

INTRODUCTION Increasingly stringent worldwide environmental legislation is requiring the coal power sector to install high-efficiency abatement technologies to comply with the pollutant emission limits imposed by the applicable national standards. At the same time, the industrial sector is also required to take into account profitability criteria, not only in the

ABSTRACT The paper presents the industrial results of an optimization program developed at different European coal-fired units with tangential, front-wall and arch-fired boilers. The objective of this program has been the joint optimization of heat rate and NOx emissions by the application of an innovative approach consisting in the accurate

ABSTRACT This paper presents the fundamentals and outcomes of the novel Layered Solutions Approach, developed by INERCO, an engineering company based at Spain, along with its Polish associate partner KWANT and the collaboration of the Austrian firm INTEGRAL. This technology is aimed at the abatement of NOx emissions below 200

Novel’ control’-scheme optimizes operations and reliability of combustion units. New technologies enable optimizing combustion processes for hydrocarbon processing facilities. Economic and environmental drivers require improving operating efficiency while mitigating emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx)’ carbon monoxide (CO) and particulates. “Smoother” operations increase the safety for combustion units.

Abstract This paper presents the fundamentals of a novel technological approach called Controlled Furnace, which is commercialised by INERCO, an engineering company based at Seville (Spain), in collaboration with KWANT, a monitoring system supplier, based at Krakow (Poland), under the name ABACO (Advanced Boiler Automation for Combustion Optimisation). This technology