Figure: 30 TAC §17.17(b)
| No. | Property | Description |
|---|---|---|
| B-1 | Coal Cleaning or Refining Facilities | Used to remove impurities from coal in order to boost the heat content and to reduce potential air pollutants. |
| B-2 | Atmospheric or Pressurized and Bubbling or Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion Systems and Gasification Fluidized Bed Combustion Combined Cycle Systems |
Combustion systems that reduce pollution through the use of a fluidized bed that can be atmospheric and bubbling or circulating; gasification combined cycle systems; or pressurized and bubbling or circulating systems. |
| B-3 | Ultra-Supercritical Pulverized Coal Boilers |
Boiler system designed to provide 4500 pounds per square inch gauge (psig)/1100°/1100°/1100° double reheat configuration. |
| B-4 | Flue Gas Recirculation Components | Ductwork, blowers, and ancillary equipment used to redirect part of the flue gas back to the combustion chamber for reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) formation. May include fly ash collection in coal fired units. |
| B-5 | Syngas Purification Systems and Gas-Cleanup Units |
A system, including all necessary appurtenances, that: (1) produces synthesis gas from coal, biomass, petroleum coke, or solid waste and is then converted to electricity via combined cycle power generation equipment; and (2) equipment that removes sulfur, carbon, and other polluting compounds from synthesis gas streams. |
| B-6 | Enhanced Heat Recovery Systems | A heating system used to reduce the temperature and humidity of the exhaust gas stream and recover the heat so that it can be returned to the steam generator so as to increase the quantity of steam generated per quantity of fuel consumed. |
| B-7 | Exhaust Heat Recovery Boilers | Used to recover the heat from boiler to generate additional steam. |
| B-8 | Heat Recovery Steam Generators | A counter-flow heat exchanger consisting of a series of super-heater, boiler (or evaporator) and economizer tube sections, arranged from the gas inlet to the gas outlet to maximize heat recovery from the gas turbine exhaust gas. |
| B-9 | Heat Transfer Sections for Heat Recovery Steam Generators |
Super-heaters, Evaporators, Re-heaters and Economizers. |
| B-10 | Enhanced Steam Turbine Systems | Enhanced efficiency steam turbines. |
| B-11 | Methanation | Coal Gasification process that removes carbon and produces methane, including the necessary support systems and appurtenances. |
| B-12 | Coal Combustion or Gasification By- product and Co-product Handling, Storage, and Treatment Facilities |
Used for handling, storage, or treatment of by- products or co-products produced (resulting) from the combustion or gasification of coal such as boiler and Gasifier slag, bottom ash, flue gas desulfurization (FGD) material, fly ash, and sulfur. |
| B-13 | Biomass Cofiring Storage, Distribution, and Firing Systems |
Installed to reduce pollution by using biomass as a supplementary fuel. |
| B-14 | Coal Cleaning or Drying Processes, such as coal drying/moisture reduction, air jigging, precombustion decarbonization, and coal flow balancing technology |
Used to produce a cleaner burning coal (such as coal drying, moisture reduction, air jigging, precombustion decarbonization, or coal flow balancing technology). |
| B-15a | Oxy-Fuel Combustion Technology | Installed to allow the feeding of oxygen, rather than air, and a proportion of recycled flue gases to the boiler. |
| B-15b | Amine or Chilled Ammonia Scrubbing |
Installed to provide post combustion capture of pollutants (including carbon dioxide upon the effective date of a final rule adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant). |
| B-15c | Catalyst based Systems | Installed to allow the use of catalysts to reduce emissions. |
| B-15d | Enhanced Scrubbing Technology | Installed to enhance scrubber performance, including equipment that promotes the oxidation of elemental mercury in the flue gas prior to entering the scrubber. |
| B-15e | Modified Combustion Technologies | Systems such as chemical looping and biomass co-firing that are designed to enhance pollutant removal. |
| B-15f | Cryogenic Technology | Cryogenic cooling systems used to reduce pollution (including carbon dioxide upon the effective date of a final rule adopted by the EPA regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant). |
| B-16 | Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geological Sequestration Equipment |
Used, constructed, acquired, or installed wholly or partly to capture carbon dioxide from an anthropogenic source in this state that is then geologically sequestered in this state. (This item is only in effect upon the effective date of an EPA final rule regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.) |
| B-17 | Fuel Cells | Used to generate electricity using hydrogen derived from coal, biomass, petroleum coke, or solid waste. |
| B-18 | Regulated Air Pollutant Control Equipment |
Any other facility, device, or method designed to prevent, capture, abate, or monitor nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, mercury, carbon monoxide, or any criteria pollutant. |