combustion plant News
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Software making us stronger
ECOMB and the Swedish company Heat Management have agreed to cooperate on operational analysis of combustion plants. The very large amounts of data collected from all sensors in a combustion plant require specialized “Big Data” software to monitor the boiler operation and find useful correlations between parameters. Heat Management’s software and expertise in analysing the ...
By Ecomb AB
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E.ON permanently closes UK power plant
E.ON is officially closing its Ironbridge power plant in Shropshire, England. The German utility said the plant, which was converted to run on biomass instead of coal in 2012, will stop commercial operations at 1430 GMT on Friday. Despite the conversion, the plant was required under European Union pollution laws to cease operations after generating for 20,000 hours from Jan. 1, 2008. The plant ...
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MEPs vote to cap Emissions of Medium Combustion Plants
EU countries would have to enforce sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emission limits upon medium-sized combustion plants, such as electricity generators or heating systems for domestic, residential or industrial use, under draft plans approved by the Environment Committee on Wednesday. MEPs voted to adapt the scheme to match the plants’ thermal input, so as to reduce the administrative ...
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Medium combustion plants: New rules on emissions adopted
On 10 November 2015, the Council adopted a new directive to limit the emissions from combustion plants of medium size. These new rules are part of the clean air legislative package, which aims at improving air quality in the EU. The new directive sets emission limit values for certain pollutants. These limits will be applied for new and existing combustion plants of medium size (between 1 ...
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Capping emissions from medium-sized combustion plants
Proposed EU sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emission limits for medium-sized combustion plants, such as electricity generators or heating systems for domestic, residential or industrial use, were backed by MEPs on Wednesday. They had already been informally agreed with EU ministers. In areas where these emissions breach EU air quality standards, EU countries would be required to assess whether ...
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New Medium Combustion Plant Directive affects over 30,000 plants
This year’s Air Quality & Emissions Show, AQE 2018, will focus heavily on the Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD), which will come into force on 20th December 2018. AQE Organiser Marcus Pattison says: “This new regulation will affect an enormous number of processes, so it is vitally important that they are fully aware of the requirements and how to implement them. ...
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Medium combustion plants emissions: informal deal with Council
Draft plans to set sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emission limits for medium-sized combustion plants, such as electricity generators or heating systems for domestic, residential or industrial use, were informally agreed by MEPs and the Latvian Presidency of the Council on Tuesday. EU Member states will have to assess whether to introduce stricter limits in areas where these emissions breach ...
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New Medium Combustion Plant Directive affects over 30,000 plants
This year’s Air Quality & Emissions Show, AQE 2018, will focus heavily on the Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD), which will come into force on 20th December 2018. AQE Organiser Marcus Pattison says: “This new regulation will affect an enormous number of processes, so it is vitally important that they are fully aware of the requirements and how to implement them. ...
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RJM and ECOMB announce co-operative partnership
ECOMB of Sweden and RJM International of the UK announce today a co- operative partnership to offer a combined range of combustion and emissions improvement technologies to combustion plants and heat producers across Scandinavia RJM International, the award-winning provider of innovative combustion and efficiency improvement technologies and ECOMB, the Swedish provider of a range of emissions ...
By Ecomb AB
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Landfill and Biogas gas monitoring
Landfill and biogas provide a source of readily available and renewable energy. However, as a source of energy care has to be taken to understand and quantify impurities in the raw gas that can have an effect on either the amount of energy products, or contaminants that can foul the energy generators (siloxanes). ETG can provide analysis solutions to qualify and quantify these impurities. Gas ...
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Order from a new client in a new market segment
We have now received a new order from Germany. This is not a gigantic order but it is exiting in that it is coming from a client on a completely new market segment, which can become significant in the long term. The project is a demonstration plant for reduction of Mercury emissions by injection of various agents into the flue gases from coal fired boilers. Mercury (Hg) has come into focus as the ...
By Ecomb AB
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Is gaming becoming more environmentally conscious?
Environmentalism is becoming an ever hotter topic by the day, with the focus on curbing our carbon emissions a key priority for governments all across the world. Often, large-scale initiatives like the medium combustion plant directive target industry and big business, but there are plenty of things that everyday citizens can do to curb their emissions, too. Gaming represents an area where ...
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The end of the road for Didcot A?
Last week the team at Aether were joined by some colleagues from the UK emissions inventory team at AEA for a tour of Didcot A power station, one of the UKs largest predominantly coal firing facilities at 2,000 MW (enough to provide electricity to 2 million homes!). In addition, a small amount of biomass is now also burnt at the plant. The tour provided a great chance to get away from the ...
By Aether Ltd
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Axion Polymers introduces new high-CV alternative fuels
Axion Polymers has added two new Axfuel® High CV Polychip alternative fuels to its existing range of environmental Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) products that provide a consistent and sustainable energy solution with low carbon impact. Suitable for use in the cement industry and energy-from-waste sectors, Axfuel® High CV Polychip Grades A and B are fully-processed, technically-separated and ...
By Axion Group
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Metso to perform replacement of chemical recovery boiler for UBE Chemicals in Thailand
Metso Corporation's press release on July 11, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. local time Metso solution brings added value to chemical recovery Metso will perform replacement of a chemical recovery boiler for UBE Chemicals in Thailand. With Metso's solution, recovered chemicals can be combusted more efficiently, creating energy extraction benefits with minimal burden on environment. The total value of ...
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CCS is moving forward
Two large components arrived today at the pilot plant for CO2 capture in Buggenum, the Netherlands. Through its subsidiary Nuon, Vattenfall is now actively working with development of three different carbon capture technologies. Important parts of the CO2 capture pilot are put into place today. The pilot is located at the Willem Alexander power plant in Buggenum and will start up operations in ...
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Reducing air pollution from coal power plants in the Western Balkans would save thousands of lives annually
Tomorrow, ministers at the 15th ministerial council meeting of the Energy Community in Kosovo will adopt new rules for emission limits for coal power plants in the Western Balkans (as part of the transposition of the EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive into national law). The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) calls on political leaders to put the countries on track for swift and ...
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WBA welcomes new members
WBA welcomes the following companies and associations to the global bioenergy association network. To access the complete list of WBA members, click here. Westtech Maschinenbau GmbH Austria Westtech is an Austrian company producing machinery for the forestry industry. Their main product is the Woodcracker range of machines for harvesting and processing forestry products. Bioenergie ...
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Aker Solutions confirms GBP115M power project is biomass renewable plant in Scotland
03 February 2010 - Aker Solutions previously announced (Monday 1 February 2010 at 08:00 CET) that it has been awarded a power plant project in Europe. Aker Solutions confirms the contract, awarded by RWE, is to provide design, supply, installation, construction and commissioning for a new 50MW Biomass renewable energy plant at the Tullis Russell Papermakers plant near Fife in Scotland. The ...
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DECC: Financial support for anaerobic digestion
The Government has announced ambitious plans to provide financial support for anaerobic digestion technologies through feed-in-tariffs (FITs) and the “world’s first” renewable heat incentive scheme. The schemes are designed to bring about a significant increase in the amount of locally produced green energy and help the UK meet its renewable energy targets. FITs is a financial support system ...
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