Power Plant Engineering

420 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 13.9.2 Acid Rain The precursors of which are nitric oxide (NO) and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ). Over hour ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 421 trouble breathing when it was foggy. The problems of fog are now believed by some to be more serio ...

422 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 13.10.3 Alkanes When Alkanes (CnH2n+2) of n = 2 and above are burned, the reaction chemistry is diff ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 423 N 2 + O → NO + N N + O 2 → NO + O N + OH → NO + H When this process occurs in the post flame zo ...

424 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 13.11.4 Soot Soot is composed of particles of a few hundred angstroms in size. Generally, soot is a ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 425 The additional time required for vaporization, The more complex hydrocarbons involved in the fuel ...

426 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Coal particles of about 1/8th inch diameter are burned in fluidized bed coal combustors (FBC). In th ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 427 as much as 10% S by weight. The sulfur is contained in both the organic and inorganic fractions of ...

428 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 13.14 Air Pollution by Thermal Power Plants The environmental pollution by thermal power plants usin ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 429 the fly ash. On the way to river or ash pond, these salts percolate in the nearby soil and make th ...

430 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Typical Exhaust Gas Emission Values For Modern 4-stroke Diesel Power Plants Using Heavy Fuel Fuel FO ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 431 Carbon Monoxide (CO): It is a colourless, highly noxious gas which forms where the combus- tion of ...

432 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Besides thermal pollution, which it shares with almost all types of power plants, nuclear power’s ef ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 433 Power generation in the reactor, resulting in irradiated or spent fuel. Short-term storage of the ...

434 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING isotopes (which are the ones with shortest half-lives) to decay before shipment for reprocessing or ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 435 13.19.1 Environmental Concerns In Delhi today, pollution is one of the most critical problems faci ...

436 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Vehicular Pollution. The steep increase in vehicle population has resulted in a corresponding incre ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 437 sets. They have been asked to increase the stack height to a level of 2-3 meters above their build ...

438 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING (3) Use of garbage to make compost with the participation of the private sector; (4) Development of ...

POLLUTION AND ITS CONTROL 439 Traffic Intersections Sulphur dioxide (mg/m^3 ) 42 25 20 60.00 Nitrogen dioxide (mg/m^3 ) 66 63 60 ...