TY - JOUR ID - 362 TI - A technical and economic assessment of fuel oil hydrotreating technology for steam power plant SO2 and NOx emissions control JO - Advances in Environmental Technology JA - AET LA - en SN - 2476-6674 AU - pourmoghaddam, peiman AU - Davari, Susan AU - moghaddam, Zahra AD - Energy and Environment Research Center of Niroo Research Institute, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 45 EP - 54 KW - Fuel oil hydrotreating KW - Steam power plant KW - Emissions control KW - Social cost savings KW - National and international SO2 emissions standards DO - 10.22104/aet.2016.362 N2 - This work presents a simulation approach to the design and economic evaluation of fuel oil hydrotreating processes for the control of SO2 and NOx emission in an Iranian steam power plant. The percent of fuel oil desulphurization was estimated from the SO2 emissions standards for power plants. Based on two different scenarios according to (I) European and (II) Iranian standards, the design and simulation of hydrodesulphurization reactors, separation, heat recovery, and amine gas sweetening sections were performed and an economic assessment of the plant was investigated for each scenario. The results indicated the following: the cost price of each barrel of low sulfur fuel oil produced in such plants was estimated at  4.24 US$ for scenario (I) and 3.17 US$ for scenario (II); the levelized cost of desulfurization in power production was estimated at 0.618 c/kWh for (I) and 0.463 c/kWh for (II); and the social cost savings of replacing every barrel of low sulfur fuel oil instead of one barrel of high sulfur fuel oil were estimated at 26.7 US$ for (I) and 13.6 US$ (II). UR - https://aet.irost.ir/article_362.html L1 - https://aet.irost.ir/article_362_71035d198da60973aa786255fb8d2ad0.pdf ER -