CoaLogix and FLSmidth form alliance to combat acid rain and mercury emissions

Enstreet News Bureau
2/8/2010

CoaLogix (Charlotte, NC), a leader in clean coal solutions announced that its subsidiary CoaLogix Tech has signed an agreement with FLSmidth (Copenhagen, Denmark), a global engineering company,  to provide SO₃ and mercury remediation technologies to the coal fired power generation market.

With this agreement, CoaLogix Tech becomes the exclusive partner for selling and executing FLSmidth’s leading SO₃ reduction technology into the power generation market. In addition to marketing existing lines, CoaLogix Tech and FLSmidth will jointly design standardized products, which will be marketed to energy producers by the CoaLogix Tech sales force. The agreement also brings FLSmidth’s existing technology for mercury remediation to CoaLogix Tech.

With 128 years of experience, FLSmidth is the leading supplier of equipment and services to the cement and minerals industries, which face similar emissions challenges to energy production facilities. The partnering companies’ combined SO₃, NO_x and mercury remediation technologies are already installed in plants generating over 60,000MW of coal fired generation, which represents about 25% of the coal generation market in the United States.

In the process of burning coal, the sulfur in the coal is converted into SO₂ and SO₃. SO₂ is captured by environmental systems in the plant while SO₃ tends to be emitted into the environment contributing to acid rain. This is a very large and growing issue with plants in the US because of the need to burn lower cost and higher sulfur coals. Mercury from coal fired plants is not yet regulated at the federal level. The Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) was vacated in 2009 and new regulations are expected within the next year.

The extensive know-how developed by FLSmidth effects reduction in emissions via the reliable and discrete delivery of dry sorbents in power plants. FLSmidth products already mitigate SO₃ in generating units producing over 16,000MW of power, in addition to a number of mercury reduction units.

CoaLogix’s SCR technology has regenerated over 18,000 SCR catalyst modules that mitigate NO_x emissions in units generating 33,000 MW of power in the United States. “With this partnership, CoaLogix is attacking SO₃ and mercury in a holistic manner, combining SCR, dry sorbent injection and combustion management strategies,” said Bill McMahon, CEO of CoaLogix. “Our new SO3Assure offering will effectively mitigate both NO_x and SO₃ emissions. Our clients will benefit from lower capital expenditures longer component lives, fewer forced outages, better heat rates, fuel savings and lower CO₂ emissions. The technology, equipment and personnel at FLSmidth are unparalleled in the industry and we are proud to be allied with them to support our customers.”

“FLSmidth is very excited to be teaming with CoaLogix Tech to help offer innovative solutions to the market for SO₃ and mercury reduction,” said Bernard Zavatone, General Manager of FLSmidth’s Pneumatic Transport department. “Joining CoaLogix’s SCR and power plant emissions experience with FLSmidth’s sorbent injection technology creates a unique offering, where end users can have one-stop shopping for SCR optimization as well as NO_x and SO₃ control. We have been impressed with CoaLogix’s focus on providing total service to their customers and we look forward to working alongside their experienced team.”

CoaLogix provides innovative solutions for clean energy production, with a focus specifically on cost-effective emissions control strategies for the coal and gas fired power generation industry. CoaLogix is a leader in SCR catalyst regeneration, a technology used by power plants to reduce NO_x and affect SO₃ emissions. CoaLogix's NOxAssure program is an innovative, quick response service to provide power generating utilities SCR catalyst at lower cost and faster turnaround times. SCR-Tech, a CoaLogix company, applies the latest technologies to improve performance characteristics and extend the life of DeNOx catalyst. With 20,000MW of managed SCR’s and 33,000MW of regenerated DeNOx catalyst SCR Tech has emerged as the
power generation industry trusted advisor.

Source: Acorn Energy