Emission Characteristics of Ammonia at Bituminous Coal Power Plant

Seongmin Kang, Seong-Dong Kim and Eui-Chan Jeon
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Seongmin Kang: Chang Research Center, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
Seong-Dong Kim: Cooperate Course for Climate Change, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
Eui-Chan Jeon: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-8

Abstract: This study developed a NH 3 emission factor for bituminous coal power plants in South Korea in order to investigate the NH 3 emission characteristics. The NH 3 concentration analysis results showed that emissions from the selected bituminous coal power plants were in the range of 0.21–0.99 ppm, and that the difference in NH 3 concentration was affected by NOx concentration. The NH 3 emission factor was found to be 0.0029 kg NH 3 /ton, which demonstrated that the difference in the values obtained from the research conducted in South Korea was lower than the difference in the emission factor provided by the U.S. EPA, which is currently applied in the statistics of South Korea. NH 3 emissions were compared by using the NH 3 emission factor developed in this study alongside the EPA’s NH 3 emission factor that is currently applied in South Korea’s statistics; the difference was found to be 206 NH 3 ton/year. This implies that an emission factor that reflects the national characteristics of South Korea needs to be developed. The uncertainty range of the NH 3 emission factor developed in this study was between −6.9% and +10.34% at a 95% confidence level.

Keywords: PM2.5; secondary sources; bituminous coal power plant; uncertainty analysis; ammonia emission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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