Analysis on Abatement Cost and its Influencing Factors on Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Power Plants in China

DOI

10.2991/icitme-18.2018.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions; abatement cost; coal-fired power plants

Abstract

The coal-fired power industry in China is confronted with issues on Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) abatement and corresponding additional costs. The selection of denitration technologies and measures is a scientific, economic, and political issue. Several domestic studies estimate the denitration costs and their influencing factors in the context of Chinese power industry. The influencing factors on denitration cost during operations and manufacturing can be credited to the average total cost of denitration. Denitration technologies and measures can be evaluated based on the unit cost of pollution reduction (UCPR), which can be calculated from the marginal abatement cost function. The UCPR was used to examine the cost-effectiveness of each emission reduction technologies and measures. Our analysis shows that the factors, electricity capacity, denitration technology, and construction measure, play incredible roles in determining denitration cost, whereas selective catalytic reduction denitration technology and technological transformation construction measure are the most favored options as regards denitration practice from power plants in China. Given that the mean value of the UCPR is 1.19 cent/kWh, compared with the 1 cent/kWh subsidy, the national denitration subsidy on electricity price is reasonable. Although the NOx abatement strategies provide beneficial effects, some related measures are needed for their implementation.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Chunyu Yang
AU  - Mengfan Xia
AU  - Zhanfeng Dong
AU  - Junfeng Wang
AU  - Xiaoqiong Li
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Analysis on Abatement Cost and its Influencing Factors on Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Power Plants in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Information Technology and Management Engineering (ICITME 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 55
EP  - 62
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icitme-18.2018.12
DO  - 10.2991/icitme-18.2018.12
ID  - Yang2018/08
ER  -