Title:
Nanoparticle Emissions from a Woody Biomass Power Plant (15 Mw)
Author(s):
Ozgen, S., Cernuschi, S., Giugliano, M., Signorini, S.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Biomass energy is attracting more and more attention because it is a potentially CO2 neutral and renewable energy source. Nonetheless biomass combustion is reported to be an important source of ambient fine particulate matter (PM). Though large scale combustion installations such as power plants have efficient flue gas cleaning systems and are continuously monitored for stack gas conventional PM mass concentrations, ultrafine (UFP: dp <100 nm) and nanoparticle (NP: dp < 50 nm) number emissions from these installations remain largely unmeasured. For this purpose stack measurements of ultrafine particle emissions were conducted on a grate-firing woody biomass power plant with the evaluation extended also to the investigation of the contribution on these emissions of any material of condensable origin, arising from cooling and dilution effects immediately following flue gas release into the atmosphere.
Keywords:
biomass, combustion, power generation, particle emissions, wood
Topic:
R&D on Biomass Conversion Technologies for Heating, Electricity and Chemicals
Subtopic:
Solid biofuel combustion for large utility
Event:
20th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
2CV.4.45
Pages:
1375 - 1378
ISBN:
978-88-89407-54-7
Paper DOI:
10.5071/20thEUBCE2012-2CV.4.45
Price:
FREE
