How will Plant Washington control the emissions coming out of the power plant?
Plant Washington will be one of the cleanest coal plants in the nation, using the best available control technologies: a highly-efficient supercritical boiler that produces more energy with less coal; a state-of-the-art wet scrubber to greatly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions; selective catalytic reduction to greatly reduce nitrogen oxides emissions; fabric filter baghouses to greatly control and remove particulate emissions; sorbent injection to greatly reduce mercury and sulfuric acid mist emissions; and a combination of surface water and groundwater for cooling and process.. • NOx emissions: Emissions are reduced using a combination of low NOx burners, over fire air (OFA) and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology. • SO2 emissions: SO2 is captured using wet limestone flue gas desulfurization (FGD). The end product, gypsum, can be recycled for use in products such as wallboard, plaster and fertilizer. • Particulate emissions: Particulate matter is removed using fabric filter b
