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Jim Sutton, Director at Alstom Power, discussed CO2 reduction through increasing energy efficiency in coal-fired boilers. Lots of CO2 could be avoided by making improvements in many areas. For example just using a more efficient transformer rectifier with a precipitator significantly reduced the parasitic load. There is a huge potential when the average heat rate for the U.S. fleet is 10,761 Btu/kW-hr for an efficiency of only 31 percent. Jim showed a group of older power plants with heat rates above 15,000 Btu/kW-hr, so the potential CO2 reduction for these old power plants is very large.
Revision Date: 3/31/2011
Tags: 221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Alstom, CO2