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Optimizing combustion at a coal-fired power plant can be very challenging. The competitive power markets require these plants to enhance availability, improve efficiency, reduce emissions and increase fuel flexibility. At the same time, plants are faced with the operational impacts of increased slagging and water wall wastage resulting from burning non-design fuels and reducing emission levels. These can all be competing objectives at times but all are affected by how well the combustion in the furnace is balanced and optimized. Improving efficiency will also become even more important as requirements to reduce CO₂ from the existing coal-fired fleet are implemented as part of future GHG legislation.

In the past, engineers and operators were restricted to using a limited number of back-end, multi-point extraction sensors, far from the combustion area to tune the boiler on a one-time or as-needed basis. If any operating conditions changed (such as coal quality) the boiler was no longer optimally tuned. With non-invasive, laser-based technology systems, engineers and operators can obtain key combustion constituents such as temperature, O₂ and CO directly from the furnace and in real-time, to maintain optimum combustion performance over a wide range of operating conditions. Better measurements, means better results, greater efficiency, and reduction in costs.

Who Should Attend

This program is specifically designed for utility plant personnel who are responsible for optimizing the combustion in coal-fired power plants, including:

• Performance engineers
  
• Boiler engineers
  
• Plant operators or supervisors
  
• Instrument and control engineers
  
• Power plant fuel experts, purchasers, and project managers
  
• Other utility personnel interested in TDLAS technology
  
• Suppliers supporting utilities with generation materials and equipment

Learning Outcomes

• Determine how laser-based measurements can be used to create two-dimensional profiles of key combustion constituents directly in the furnace
  
• Explore applications of in furnace laser based measurement systems on different types of boilers and fuels (T-Fired, Wall-Fired, Cyclone and Down-shot)
  
• Analyze how combustion data can be utilized to reduce NOx levels; reduce slag; and improve efficiency

Requirements for Successful Completion of Program

Participants must be logged in to the web conference for its entirety to receive continuing education credit.

Instructional Methods

Web based PowerPoint presentation and on-line interactive question/answer session.

Continuing Education Credits:

EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer up to 0.1 CEUs for this program.