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6 December 2006 -- WOW Energy, Inc announced that its WOWClean pilot plant has demonstrated CO2 greenhouse gas reductions ranging from 25 percent to 85 percent from flue gases on a AES150 MW petcoke fired electricity generating plant in Texas and a Boralex 40 MW wood waste fired electricity generating plant in Maine. Pollution reduction results were verified by independent third party test agencies in accordance with EPA test procedures.
CO2 is becoming a bigger issue for the power generation industry because it is associated with global warming and is the by-product of burning fossil fuels and the most difficult pollutant to remove from flue gases.
WOW Energy described the WOWClean as a stand alone multi-pollutant removal system developed for installation on coal-fired power plants, boilers, furnaces, incinerators, gasifiers, gas turbines, reciprocating engines and other industrial flue gas sources. The company said the technology is designed to operate with low temperature flue gases and removes nearly all the pollutants from a flue gas, including SOx, NOx, and PM2.5/PM10 particulates. In addition to removing these pollutants, the system removes between 85 percent and 95 percent of heavy metals pollutants, including mercury.
A WOWClean pilot plant was built with a $1.6 Million cost shared grant program from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), awarded in April 2005. The grant program provided for the demonstration and commercialization of the WOW Energies' multi-pollutant flue gas cleaning technology. The pilot plant is a mobile unit and available for transport to any site to analyze, test and verify the pollution reduction capabilities of the WOWClean technology.
The results of the WOWClean pilot plant testing will be presented on Wednesday, December 6 at the Texas Technology 2006 Showcase in Galveston, Texas. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Texas Industries of the Future, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) sponsor the Technology Showcase.
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