Saturday, November 07, 2009

Regulatory Mind, updated

The last email exchange was interesting. I've said that siloxane removal for low-medium Btu landfill gas to energy projects was not good enough to make it technically feasible for SCR because the silicon would degrade an poison the catalyst. Florida DEP is, because someone else did, requiring a cost analysis. The example sent said they wouldn't do it and, if it were a requirement for the project, they wouldn't do the project because it would be too costly. So, he made my case. I guess my definition of technically feasible is the catalyst will be poisoned quickly, therefore making it impractical to do this. I guess we just write the cost up, making it too costly.

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