Program Area of Interest 3: Enhanced Mercury Oxidation in the Combustor

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Program Area of Interest 3: Enhanced Mercury Oxidation in the Combustor: NOTE: Please read the Master Funding Opportunity Announcement (attached below) for complete details on evaluation criteria and application preparation instructions. Proposals are to include either pilot-scale (slip stream) or field testing-scale evaluations of novel chemical injection/radical production technologies in concert with ultra-LNB, reburn, and/or SNCR technologies that would achieve +90% mercury oxidation, thereby eliminating reliance on the SCR catalyst for oxidation. These studies are to be conducted in the flue gas generated from a pulverized coal-fired or cyclone-fired furnace. Testing can be conducted on one or more different ranks of coal. The expected duration of the projects should be 1 to 3 years. Proposals need to address issues pertaining to balance of plant impacts, mercury speciation, capture, re-emission, and disposal. A reduction in the associated capital and operating costs needs to be demonstrated such that the levelized cost savings of at least 25% is realized over the current state-of-the-art activated carbon injection technology. This research is to be innovative when compared to technologies that are currently being implemented and demonstrated at the commercial-scale. Additionally, the offered projects need to have successfully completed laboratory/bench-scale or prior pilot-scale testing and these results are required to be presented in the proposal to clearly demonstrate the technology's capabilities and cost benefits.