Marsulex Environmental Technologies (MET) announced it has secured a license to supply dry circulating fluid bed (CFB) flue gas desulfurization (FGD) technology to the North American Market. The technology was developed by Zhejiang University’s Institute of Thermal Power Engineering (ITPE) in Hangzhou, China.
Developed by ITPE over the past two decades, this CFB dry scrubbing technology differs from others by employing a novel multi-stage humidification, which promotes SO2 removal and system reliability. Advantages over conventional spray dryer technologies include higher SO2 removal capability and enhanced multi-pollutant emissions control.
MET’s experience with dry FGD began in the 1980’s with rotary atomizer spray dryer technology. MET’s future CFB FGD projects will be engineered, supplied and serviced by its Lebanon, PA headquarters office.
MET President stated,
“We are excited to now offer the CFB FGD product to customers in North America. ITPE’s technology has been widely applied with over a hundred plants in operation. We believe that the CFB FGD technology will fill an important marketplace need in the future as ever-tightening emissions limits must be reliably met.”
In addition to limestone, lime and caustic-based wet FGD systems, upgrades of existing FGD systems and aftermarket services, MET offers a proprietary ammonium sulfate FGD technology (AS-FGD) which produces a high-value crop fertilizer by-product that has been successfully demonstrated on a full scale, commercial basis for over a decade. MET AS-FGD systems are in use in the U.S., Canada and China and another such system for a coal-fired power plant complex in Poland is currently in the engineering phase. Information regarding MET’s products and services can be found at MET’s website, www.met.net.
Marsulex Environmental Technologies is a world leading provider of FGD systems and technology. MET FGD systems service over 91,000 megawatts of power generation in 22 countries.