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TOMERED<br />

Objectives<br />

The utilisation of biomass and biowaste<br />

materials as fuel (biofuels) with coal for<br />

power generation has been proved to<br />

contribute to a decrease in fuel and energy<br />

costs as well as a reduction in CO2.<br />

However, in many instances the use of<br />

biofuels introduces significantly higher<br />

concentrations of toxic metals (ToMe),<br />

such as Hg, Cd, Pb, Ni, Cr, As, etc. into<br />

the combustion process. Valid data is<br />

limited on the emission behaviour of ToMe<br />

during large-scale combustion of biofuels<br />

together with coal and its influence on<br />

their behaviour during subsequent flue gas<br />

cooling and treatment processes.<br />

The project aims to investigate the fate<br />

of ToMe during the combustion of coal<br />

with and without a range of biofuels,<br />

and to develop control strategies for<br />

the reduction of ToMe and other pollutants<br />

from large combustion plants. There will<br />

be a special focus on enhancing<br />

the removal of mercury.<br />

Reduction of toxic metal<br />

emissions from combustion<br />

plants<br />

Problems addressed<br />

The project partners are performing fundamental<br />

investigations in laboratory-, bench-, pilot- and fullscale<br />

combustion facilities with emission control<br />

equipment. The project addresses key technical<br />

issues such as the understanding of ToMe<br />

release, distribution and, when possible,<br />

speciation during combustion and subsequent<br />

cooling, the provision of valid data from fullscale<br />

plants on ToMe emission, and the<br />

development of strategies or novel technological<br />

solutions to enhance the removal of ToMe from<br />

combustion flue gas. Therefore, the partitioning<br />

behaviour and the speciation of ToMe is<br />

characterised in an extensive test programme<br />

with the use and development of advanced<br />

analysis and characterisation methods. The<br />

experimental work will be supported by the<br />

development, validation and application of<br />

theoretical models for ash transformation, and<br />

ToMe speciation, enrichment and removal. Other<br />

main activities include the review and critical<br />

assessment of the best available technologies<br />

and current developmental approaches for the<br />

removal of ToMe, an assessment of fuel-blending<br />

strategies, a detailed study into the impact of<br />

conventional emission control technologies for<br />

particulates, SO2 and NOx on the fate of ToMe,<br />

particularly mercury, an evaluation of suitable<br />

carbon- non-carbon- or metal-oxide-based<br />

sorbents, as well as a techno-economic<br />

assessment of future mercury control options<br />

including recommendations for further research<br />

and development.<br />

138<br />

Consortium<br />

The project consortium is made up of three leading<br />

<strong>European</strong> energy supply companies, namely E.ON<br />

Engineering GmbH, (D), PowerGen UK Plc, (UK),<br />

and ENEL Produzione S.p.A., (I), a power plant<br />

manufacturer, Mitsui Babcock <strong>Energy</strong> Ltd., (UK),<br />

a combustion engineering company, Reaction<br />

Engineering International, (US), as well as two<br />

research organisations, <strong>Energy</strong> Research Centre<br />

of the Netherlands, (NL), KEMA Nederland B.V.,<br />

(NL), and eight <strong>European</strong> universities, Technical<br />

University of Denmark, (DK), Abo Akademi<br />

University, (FI), Technical University of Delft, (NL),<br />

The Imperial College of Science, Technology and<br />

Medicine, (UK), The University of Nottingham,<br />

(UK), University of Alicante, (ES), and Helsinki<br />

University of Technology, (FI), active in the field of<br />

combustion and flue gas treatment technologies.<br />

Expected results and exploitation<br />

The outcome of the work will contribute to a<br />

further understanding of ToMe behaviour during<br />

the (co-)combustion of coal and biofuels and<br />

therefore to contribute to the development of<br />

multi-pollutant control strategies for ToMe. The<br />

identification of relationships between fuel type,<br />

the fate of ToMe, and the major effects from<br />

applied air-pollution control devices is of interest<br />

to both legislative authorities and power plant<br />

operators. The development of approaches for<br />

the enhanced removal and/or capture of ToMe,<br />

such as fuel blending strategies or suitable<br />

additives and sorbents, will be considered in<br />

terms of performance and cost. The most costeffective<br />

strategies will be recommended for<br />

further research and development. Policy-makers<br />

and power plant operators will be provided with<br />

technical guidelines and recommendations<br />

regarding the control of ToMe from large-scale<br />

combustion plants.

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