2010-07 - Korea IT Times

Electric Power
KEPCO E&C
Launches Hybrid SCR DeNOx Systems
KEPCO E&C (KEPCO Engineering & Construction
Company, Inc.) has succesfully developed the Hybrid SCR
DeNOx system in the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant Unit 6 On
July 2. Special guests attended the inaguration ceremony of the
Hybrid SCR DeNOx system. Park Chi-seon, director of the plant
business division of KEPCO E&C (www.kepco-enc.com), Im
Han-gyu, director of business development in Korea East-West
Power, Cheon Byeong-ryeol, director of business management in
Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning
(KETEP), all attended the ceremony along with a hundred other
attendees. The Hybrid Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) NOx
system was one of the power industry R&D projects in the
Ministry of Knowledge Economy. The research is to complement
equipment with increasing regulation of nitrogen oxide
emissions and solve the problems of SCR systems at low load operations.
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy supported the
completion of this project with the budget of 10.5 billion in past
three years since August 2007.
KEPCO E&C, cooperated with small businesses such as
Hanmo Corperation and Daeyoung Chemical in order to develop
the system technology, succeeded in developing and applied
for domestic patents and also the results of this study was
equipped with the Ulsan heavy fuel oil fired Unit 6 in Korea East-
West Power.
Low CO2 emission at reduced cost
Because of emitted nitrogen oxide from power plants and boilers,
according to the latest increasing environmental regulations,
it is essential to be equipped with DeNOx Facilities, therefore, the
internal dependence on the external is very high. In North
America and China they recently expanded the market of denitrification,
KRW 5 trillion of DeNOx facilities and about KRW 1
trillion of catalyst demanded will be expected to occur each year
and the country spent approximately KRW 2 hundreds million a
year as a catalyst for the 30,000m3 amounts. In this situation, the
technology is expected to bring economic benefits of KRW 233
billion a year. The costs that can replace catalysts imports will be
about KRW 200 billion and a fuel saving potential that the temperature
of the exhaust emissions is made to operate SCR operating
at low load is expected about KRW 33 billion. The reductions
of greenhouse gas gives rise to CO₂ reduction effect, 5,600 tonne
per unit 1 generator per year and CDM project as well as the response
to increasing environmental regulations is expected to be
possible in fuel oil fired unit 11 and combined cycle plant unit 80.
Utilization in the construction and improvement
of DeNOx Facilities both at home and
abroad
KEPCO E&C is planning to utilize the DeNOx technology to
improve power plants and industrial boilers.
Supplying Hybrid SCR equipment to the low load heavy oil
fired power plants, district heating boilers and petrochemical facilities
beyond the internal generating systems causes to reduce
the additional fuel costs and a lower heated coal is introduced
that the denitrification efficiency can be solved by the lower exhaust
gas temperatures. It will be also taken advantage of publicizing
overseas. China is about to build up it roughly KRW 20
trillion by 2015 and starts using the technology as promoting the
excellence of our technology plans.
The growth in eco-friendly company that
contributes to Low Carbon and Green
Growth policies
KEPCO E&C ensures there is a global technology in the designed
field of the thermal power plants.
Following the trend of the reduction of greenhouse gas in response
to recent climate change, KEPCO E&C was interested in
removing contaminants and they are focusing on the desulfurization
and denitrification facilities of Air Pollution Control Facility.
G-7, one of the projects for the environmental technology development,
propelled by the Korean Electric Power Absorption
Reactor (KEPAR) is successfully completed and contributed to
the localization of desulfurization facilities with commercializing
and The low-temperature DeNOx catalyst (KoNOx R) has been
developed that reacts at low as well as high-temperatures.
KoNOx R is especially certified as the new environmental
technology (NT) and a world-class product.
KEPCO E&C continues to invest in the ESCO (Energy
Service Company) business as well as desulfurization and denitrification
and they are doing their best effort in order to grow as environmentally
friendly companies with one step ahead of technology
and services that contribute to low carbon, green growth policy.
Daniel Ko/ danielko@koreaittimes.com
56 KOREA IT TIMES | July 2010