Quantification and measurement of heavy-duty gas turbine combustion emissions during startup and shutdown operations

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Gas Turbine Institute, Turbo Expo (Publication) IGTI

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 871-879

  Willey, Lawrence ^a   Davi, Michael ^a   Smith, Gordon ^a   Almstead, John ^a   Richani, Brahim ^a   Chalfin, Joel ^a   Venkataraman, Krishna ^a  

^a GE ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION EMISSIONS;

AIR QUALITY; COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS; COMBUSTION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

GAS TURBINES;

EID: 0346947161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2003-38519     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. "Permitting Guidance on Authorization and Regulation of Emissions from Startup and Shutdown Events," Document attached to letter from L. Levy, Assistant Secretary, Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to C. Edlund, Director, US EPA.
2. US EPA Memorandum, "State Implementation Plans: Policy Regarding Excess Emissions During Malfunctions, Startup, and Shutdown," FROM: Steven A. Herman, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance and Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, TO: Regional Administrators, Regions I - X, 20 September 1999, http://www.epa.gov/rgytgrnj/programs/artd/air/nsr/nsrmemos/excesem2.pdf. Note to Reference #2: A group of parties challenged the guidance in Federal District Court, Clean Air Implementation Project v. United States Environmental Protection Agency. No. 99-1470, (D.C. Cir.). The case was settled in 2001 with EPA agreeing that the guidance "was not intended to alter the status of any existing malfunction, startup or shutdown provision in a SIP that has been approved by EPA...[and] "not intended to affect existing permit terms or conditions...."
3. States may account for SU/SD emissions by including them in their routine rule effectiveness estimates. Rule effectiveness estimates may be prepared in accordance with an EPA policy document entitled "Guidelines for Estimating and Applying Rule Effectiveness for Ozone/Carbon Monoxide State Implementation Plan Base Year Inventories," (EPA-452/R-92-010), November 1992.
4. X Combustion Systems for GE Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines," GER-3568G, by L.B. Davis and S.H. Black, October 2000.