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Electric utilities are increasingly interested in understanding the extent to which they could use biomass fuels to replace some or all of their current coal use for electric power production. Two webinars have been designed to help decision-makers and engineers better understand the options and issues associated with biomass co-firing and repowering.
The first webinar will provide a broad review of issues related to project planning and evaluation, including an overview of why co-firing and repowering could be of interest for particular types of power plants; a review of co-firing methods and repowering options; biomass resource considerations (including pros and cons of different biomass fuels, regional availability of supplies, as well as a review of biomass pre-processing options and issues); a summary of current regulatory drivers (including Federal and State initiatives related to renewable portfolio standards, greenhouse gas emissions, and financial incentives); a high-level review of the performance, operations and maintenance, and emissions control issues and impacts which plants considering biomass co-firing should prepare for; permitting considerations; as well as a summary of experience to date with co-firing and repowering in the U.S. and internationally.
The second webinar will focus specifically on the most common barriers to biomass co-firing implementation at power plants from a performance, operations and maintenance, and emissions control standpoint. Pulverizer and boiler performance and safety impacts, slagging and fouling, unburned carbon and NOx, and the impact on emissions control equipment will be outlined in detail. Possible solutions to common biomass-related limitations will be discussed, and a detailed outline of how to prepare for a biomass co-firing test burn will be discussed. In addition, the webinar will address specific concerns related to various biomass fuels (including woody and herbaceous fuels, as well as "opportunity" fuels such as sewage sludge); biomass pre-treatment options and issues (including size reduction requirements for different applications, as well as alternatives such as torrefaction or pelletization); and anticipated capital costs for different approaches (such as co-milling, direct injection, or gasification).
Who Should Attend Broadly, many of those in areas who are investigating or otherwise involved with biomass energy processes will be interested.
Others with particular interest:
- Biomass interests
- Coal plant generators
- Coal producers
- Finance and investment professionals
- Individuals involved in the biofuels supply chain
- New employees who work at, or deal with, coal-fired power plants
- Plant engineers
- Power generation managers
- Procurement managers and analysts
- Public utilities and regulatory staffers
- Regulators, communications staff, and others who need a basic understanding of coal-fired power plant operations
- Sales professionals who must understand biomass systems and be able to answer why biomass power is renewable energy
- Siting and permitting attorneys
- Sustainable fuel and feedstock interests
- Utility executives with renewable energy responsibilities
- Utility fuel purchasing
Learning Outcomes - Appraise various power plant impacts by utilizing the EPRI Vista tool
- Recognize the specific performance impacts of various biomass fuels
- Identify the opportunities of pre-processed feedstocks
- Analyze the capital costs of various alternatives of biomass power
- Recognize what triggers a New Source Review
- Review and examine specific biomass maintenance impacts and remedies
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.
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