EGEE 302

FALL 2015

FINAL PROJECT

TEAM 5
MOONEY, BRENDAN
KUMARAN, ARIHARA
D'AGOSTINO, JAMES
JUNG, SANG EUN

Table of Contents
Problem Statement.3-4
Meetings Minutes...5-6
Flow Chart.....7
Bag House Design.8
Appendix9

Problem Statement
A 250 MW fluidized power plant is operating in Cambria County in PA.
This plant uses coal from a local coal mine with the following composition
with 23% excess air.
Moisture
VM, dry
FC, dry
Ash, dry

5.2%
40.2%
50.7%
9.1%

Heating Value (BTU/lb)

As received
12,540
Dry
13,230
DAF
14,390
Ultimate:
Carbon
74.0
Hydrogen
5.1
Nitrogen
1.6
Sulfur
2.3
Ash
9.1
Oxygen
7.9
The power plant overall thermal efficiency is 34.0%. The plant is
required to capture 99% of the sulfur dioxide emissions. The limestone flow
rate was adjusted to correspond to a Ca/S ratio of 2.8. The composition of
limestone is CaCO3 83.5%, MgCO3 15.3% and the rest are inert minerals
such as silica. Plant also uses a particulate collection device with an
efficiency of 99.9% (either a bag house or an ESP). The average ambient
temperature is 65F and 60% RH. The Forced air draft fan and Induced air
draft fan balance the furnace draft. Ash analysis showed that the unburnt fuel
loss is 0.8%. Assume that fuel enters at ambient temperature. There is a
selective catalytic reduction system installed to reduce the NOx by 80%
using NH3. Assume that 30% of the fuel nitrogen forms NO that reacts with
NH3 to reduce to N2 over a catalyst. The particulate collection device is a
bag house. Assume that 40% of the total ash flows as bottom ash from the

combustion chamber and the rest is captured by the bag house. The clean gas
is going through the stack. The stack needs to be maintained 80 F above the
dew point of the gas. The steam for high pressure turbine flows at 540 C and
150 bar. Water is entering the economizer at 20 C. Assume 80% of the heat
input to the boiler goes into high pressure steam.
Prepare a flow chart for this plant and label the flows quantities, pressures
and temperatures of each flow around all the components. Perform material
and energy balances by calculating the following:
Coal, air and limestone feed rates in tons/h
Calculate the air flow rate in ACFH through the FD fan,
Flue gas composition on wet and dry basis,
Flue gas flow rate in SCFH through the ID fan,
Flue gas produced per lb of fuel, Flue gas molecular weight, Flue gas
molecular weight (dry)
Ash flow rate from the baghouse in tons/h.
Steam flow rate to the turbine.
Heat loss through the stack.
The adiabatic temperature that can be achieved by this coal
Design the particulate collection device for this plant to meet the local
emission standards.
Records of meetings, how the responsibilities to carry out the project
were divided and the role of each participant should be stated as an
appendix. Since there are several values that have to be transmitted from one
part to another, document the problems encountered and how the group has
overcome those and submit in the appendix. The report must be looking
professional and must be in word and all calculations must be done using
excel.

Meeting Minutes
Date-12/07/2015

Meeting Time- 7:00pm

Venue-Library
AttendeesJUNG, SANG EUN
MOONEY, BRENDAN
KUMARAN, ARIHARA
D'AGOSTINO, JAMES

ProceedingsShared ideas on how to approach the assignment.

The preliminary tasks were divided and then undertaken by each teammate.
D'AGOSTINO, JAMES and MOONEY, BRENDAN started working on the flow chart
KUMARAN, ARIHARA and JUNG, SANG EUN were analyzing the required calculations.

Date-12/08/2015

Meeting Time- 6:30pm

Venue-IST building
AttendeesJUNG, SANG EUN
MOONEY, BRENDAN
KUMARAN, ARIHARA
D'AGOSTINO, JAMES

ProceedingsKUMARAN, ARIHARA took over the task of maintaining records on the word document.
JUNG, SANG EUN was working on the calculations.
D'AGOSTINO, JAMES presented the final flow chart and the team analyzed it.
MOONEY, BRENDAN looked over the calculations and future proceedings.

Date 12/09/2015

Meeting Time- 9:00pm

Venue-Paterno library building
AttendeesD'AGOSTINO, JAMES
JUNG, SANG EUN
MOONEY, BRENDAN
KUMARAN, ARIHARA

ProceedingsJUNG, SANG EUN was working on the calculations and went through the word document.
D'AGOSTINO, JAMES was referring several other sources to collect more information about
the particulate collection device.
MOONEY, BRENDAN re-did the calculations to see if there were any minor errors.
KUMARAN, ARIHARA took down the minutes and calculated the adiabatic temperature with
MOONEY, BRENDAN and JUNG, SANG EUN.
Date 12/14/2015
Meeting Time- 1:00 pm
Venue- HUB
AttendeesD'AGOSTINO, JAMES
JUNG, SANG EUN
MOONEY, BRENDAN
KUMARAN, ARIHARA

ProceedingsJUNG, SANG EUN reviewed final draft of word document.

D'AGOSTINO, JAMES updated information on word document for the design of the particulate
collection device and reviewed final draft of word document.
MOONEY, BRENDAN reviewed final draft of word document.
KUMARAN, ARIHARA reviewed final draft of word document..

FLOW CHART

Bag House
The particulate collection device we plan to use in our power plant is a Bag House. The specific
type of bag house we plan to use is a Reverse Air System Bag House. We feel that this system
will be the best for our plant, the most efficient in collecting and filtering the flue gasses. For the
Bag House to meet the local emission standards; it would have to follow the Clean Power Plan
for Pennsylvania. That entails the plant releasing less than 99 short tons of CO2 by 2022 (EPA:
http://www.epa.gov/airquality/cpptoolbox/pennsylvania.pdf).

A common design for a Reverse Air System Bag House is:

The diagram provided is from Process Environments
(http://www.processenvironments.com/shopItem.php?cid=20&)

Appendix
-As discussed throughout the Meeting Minutes section, each group member
worked diligently on specifically assigned tasks; however, there were many
instances where collaboration was necessary in order to come to a final solution.
For example, when trying to calculate the adiabatic temperature that could
be achieved by the goal, there was much confusion regarding the steps
necessary to reach a reasonable answer. We needed to re-check our
calculations multiple times and verify that we were making the correct
conversions and using the enthalpies. Also, we found it most efficient to use
Mathematica to calculate the answer, but it took a lot of eyes to ensure
the most accurate outcome.
When constructing the flow chart, it took many attempts to come to a final
product as a group. There were a variety of opinions and inputs that made it
difficult to come to a consensus; however, by doing some individual
research online, and asking questions in lecture, we were able to come to an
agreement and create a flow chart that met all of our expectations.
As for the design of the particulate collection device, we were very confused
as to how we could go about answering the question at hand. We took all
factors into consideration, and figured that using an outside source would be
most efficient and beneficial for the design, since our deeper knowledge of
the subject is limited. We decided a Reverse Air System Bag House would
suit our design best.