coal-fired boiler

Phenix Limited, LLC located in Oxnard, California is the technology manager for the Clean

CCS boiler retrofit provides improved efficiency with lower operating cost by firing lower cost fuels with emissions compliance, and could allow conversion of natural gas and oil fired boilers to fire coal as well.

A CCS conversion of coal-fired electric power plants and industrial steam boilers allows burning the lower-cost higher-sulfur coals for compliance with EPA's stringent new Clean Air Interstate Rules (CAIR). See Map of EPA's Clean Air Interstate Rules (CAIR).

The CCS is a multi-pollutant emissions control technology providing sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions control. It simply prevents formation of SO2 and NOx pollution emissions right in the combustion step -- no down-stream flue gas desulfurization (FGD) or selective catalytic removal (SCR) systems are required.

The CCS is best described as an advanced hybrid of coal gasification and direct combustion. It is not an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) system but a much simpler coal gasification process followed immediately by over-fire air (OFA) combustion designed to replace the boilers existing (gas-oil-coal) burners and wind-box.

CCS Gasification Chamber Installation
Clean Combustion SystemTM (CCS) is a field-demonstrated technology that evolved over a quarter of a century from the confluence of rocket-engine technology and advanced combustion modeling techniques, and from experience in coal gasification and wet-bottom (slag-tap) boiler operation and design.

The project objectives are to "Retrofit the boiler plant to fire a typical Illinois coal and reduce the cost of energy and the stack emissions by half!"

Phenix Limited, LLC, a limited liability company located in Oxnard, California is in construction of a Clean Combustion SystemTM (CCS) commercial retrofit of an industrial coal-fired boiler.

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