Short Course — December 3-4, 2008

This intensive two-day course focuses on fireside performance monitoring and optimization with emphasis on the latest developments in techniques, software, equipment and instrumentation.  This course addresses both theory and practice, stressing “how to” perform reliable field tests, accurately measure key parameters, and analyze data.  The instructors will share their first-hand experience through their case studies which span decades of projects dedicated to performance optimization and emissions control with coal-fired boilers.  Each participant will receive a comprehensive set of course notes.

The course instructors include Dr. Edward K. Levy who is Director of Lehigh University’s Energy Research Center and Drs. Nenad Sarunac, Carlos Romero, and Harun Bilirgen who are Research Scientists in the Center.  Between the four instructors, the course team has over 75 years of research and field experience with the thermal aspects of power generation and energy conversion, with an emphasis on emissions control and performance optimization of coal-fired power plants.

This course is designed for generating company engineers and engineering managers who need to make decisions about:

• Heat Rate Improvement Options
• Emissions Control
• Equipment Maintenance
• Equipment Design Upgrades

Introduction

• Heat Rate Definitions
• Design and Physical Phenomena Affecting Performance and Emissions

Factors Affecting Unit Performance

• Boiler and Auxiliaries
• Turbine Cycle
• Utility Experience

Heat Rate Measurement Methods

• Description of Methods
• Measurement Accuracy

Pulverizers, Coal Pipes and Burners

• Pulverizer Performance
• Coal Pipe Imbalances
• Combustion Problems

Slagging and Fouling

• Effects of Fuel Properties on Slagging and Fouling
• Effects of Boiler Control Settings
• Sootblowing Optimization

Air Preheaters and Cold End Optimization

• Principles of Operation
• Cold End Fouling

Electrostatic Precipitators:  Fireside Effects

• Principles of Operation
• Opacity Control

NO_x Formation and Control

• Formation Mechanisms
• Control Techniques

SO₂, SO₃, CO₂ and Mercury

• Control Techniques

Combustion Optimization

• Case Studies

• 1.5 CEU’s will be awarded for course attendance.

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Please register me for the ERC course,
Fireside Performance Optimization and Emissions Control with Coal-Fired Boilers
December 3-4, 2008, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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