Power Magazine Digital Issue

COVER FOCUS: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

This month’s set of articles on our focus topic take you beyond familiar compliance strategies to explore new and alternative options as well as ways to ensure you’re making informed decisions you can live with for the long haul.

Don’t Let Leachate Derail Your CCR Landfill Plans Because of the potential for leachate to put a landfill operation into regulatory violation, it is important for power producers to put leachate management steps into their designs.

Continuous Water Washing in Wet Electrostatic Precipitators Reduces Capital Cost in the Chinese Market China is lowering particulate matter limits on coal-fired power plants and is looking to deploy precipitators with the best capital cost and operating profiles.

Using an Optical PM CEMS with Wet FGD for MATS Compliance An optical particulate matter continuous emissions monitoring system (PM CEMS) can overcome the problem of interference from condensation and water droplets when using an in-situ particulate monitor after a wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system for Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATSMATS) compliance.

The Need for Alternate PM2.5 Emission Factors for Gas-Fired Combustion Units It’s time to consider alternatives to the Environmental Protection Agency’s emissions factors for gas-fired units.

SPECIAL REPORT—NUCLEAR LIFECYCLE

Riding Off into the Sunset: Nuclear Decontamination and Decommissioning Update The countries that led the world in building nuclear power plants are now leading it in decommissioning plants as they reach their end of life for technical or policy reasons.

PRBCUG PLANT OF THE YEAR

Xcel Energy’s Harrington Generating Station Earns Powder River Basin Coal Users’ Group Award This three-unit Texas plant won the 2015 PRBCUG top award for mastering ABCs that all plants can learn from.

GENERATION TRANSITIONS

Public Power “Big Dog” TVA Takes Fresh Approach to Resource Planning The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has gone big on everything over its history— from hydro to coal to nuclear. Now it’s going big with “all of the above” and more.

FUELS

The Clean and Dirty of Landfill Gas Power From trash to cash seems like a great model for power generation, but landfill gas power projects have their own economic—and environmental—challenges.

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