Electric Power ›› 2020, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (9): 202-207.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202004038

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Study on Environmental Benefits of Wet Plume Treatment Project Based on Actual Measurements

ZHANG Zhiqiang1, ZHU Fahua1,2, ZOU Siyi1, SHI Pengfei1, WANG Xiaoling1, YOU Qin1, YAO Li1, YAN Shaoshuai1, WANG Xing1   

  1. 1. Guodian Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing 210023, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics Simulation and Pollution Control for Environmental Protection, State Power Environmental Protection Research Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing 210031, China
  • Received:2020-04-07 Revised:2020-06-02 Published:2020-09-09
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41771498,No.51508281)

Abstract: In order to evaluate the environmental benefits, onsite measurements were retrieved by using the RJ-SO3-M portable SO3 analyzer in the wet plume treatment project of a 600 MW power unit in Handan, Hebei Province. The monitoring data of dust, SO2 and NOx before and after the wet plume treatment project were continuously collected under the conditions of similar operating load, coal quality and time period of operations. The results show that the flue gas cooling has very limited effects on the removal of SO3 by FGD and WESP. In addition, there is no correlation between flue gas temperature drop and SO3 removal efficiency of FGD, WESP and FGD + WESP. The total removal efficiency of SO3 by FGD + WESP is between 75.6% and 81.9%, with the average of 78.9% under the conditions of the temperature drop by 0 ℃, 2.9 ℃, 3.9 ℃ and 5.8 ℃ respectively. The temperature drop of flue gas in the wet plume treatment project is beneficial to the removal of particulate matter by WESP. For instance, the mass concentration of dust emission has decreased by 0.5 mg/m3, while the concentration of SO2 and NOx emission remains almost unchanged. The removal of SO3 in flue gas mainly depends on FGD and WESP, but has almost nothing to do with whether the flue gas has been cooled down. Therefore cooling down the flue gas temperatures turns out not an effective way to reduce the emission of pollutants.

Key words: wet plume treatment project, temperature drop, SO3, conventional pollutants