Thursday, May 8, 2008
News Georgia Power's Plant Bowen gets scrubbers... finally
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:47 PM
The Rome News-Tribune is reporting that 30 years after Georgia Power's Plant Bowen started belching out pollutants, one of the nation's biggest carbon dioxide emitters has installed its first of four scrubbers at the facility.
The device — known as a flue gas desulphurization system — is estimated to remove 95 percent of sulfur dioxide from emissions. Its lone waste product — gypsum — will be sold to an Alabama rock wall company.
The article says that Georgia Power plans on installing 21 scrubbers on six of its coal-fired power plants. Each one will take three years to construct.
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