Abstract
Coal-fired power plants are characterized by high combustion temperature and well-equipped air pollution control devices. The trace organic pollutants in the municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) flue gas would be completely destroyed if the MSWI flue gas was injected into the high temperature area of a coal-fired boiler. In this study, the emission characteristics of common gas pollutants, heavy metals, and dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in both flue gas and bottom ash when the MSWI flue gas was injected into a lab-scale coal-fired drop-tube furnace were investigated. After co-processing, the concentrations of NOx, SO2, CO, and all heavy metals in the flue gas emitted from the coal-fired drop-tube furnace did not change a lot. However, the concentration of HCl in the flue gas from drop-tube furnace increased after coupling the MSWI flue gas. Moreover, the I-TEQ values of the PCDD/Fs in the flue gas and bottom ash after coupling the MSWI flue gas were 0.037ng I-TEQ/Nm3 and 0.63ng I-TEQ/g, respectively. The main formation pathways of PCDD/Fs in the flue gas of drop-tube furnace were suggested to be de novo synthesis and precursor synthesis. Furthermore, the effects of oxygen content and temperature on the formation of PCDD/Fs were also studied. The reduction efficiencies of the total amount of PCDD/Fs in the flue gas from the co-processing system were more than 60%, and even reached 90%. Therefore, co-processing of the MSWI flue gas in coal-fired power plants might be an environmentally friendly technology.
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