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A -- FEASIBILITY STUDY TO IDENTIFY TAIWANESE HOSTS FOR REBURNING TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR NOX EMISSIONS CONTROL SOL RFQ-OH-98-00180 POC Kathleen Roe, phone (513)487-2144, fax (513)487-2107 WEB: http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd, This acquisition will not appear on the web site.. E-MAIL: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, roe.kathleen@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. EPA, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division, plans to negotiate on a sole source basis with Energy and Environmental Research Corporation, Irvine, CA, to conduct a feasibility study to identify Taiwanese plants that have the greatest potential to host reburning technology demonstrations for NOx emissions control. The purpose of the study is to identify the candidate plants at which the installation and operation of a natural gas reburning system is most likely to result in the most cost effective reductions of NOx without causing significant adverse impact to plant operability. The feasibility study will examine plant design; fuel types, availabilities and costs; and operating characteristics from the perspective of how well reburning can be expected to work at each candidate plant. Factors to be evaluated include available space for installation and of reburn fuel and burnout air ducting, potential residence times between the reburn fuel injectors and burnout air ports and between the burnout air ports and the convective section, availability of natural gas, reactivity of the primary fuel (usually coal), and plant operating cycle. EPA believes Energy and Environmental Research Corporation is uniquely qualified to provide this service most efficiently given their authoritative position in the area of commercial reburning installations, unique capabilities in the area of reburning for NOx control, and existing experience, proven practical application of this technology to new and non-traditional areas, and is the only firm which has tested alternative fuels such as Orimulsion and emulsified fuel oil. However, any firm believing itself capable of performing this work may submit technical documentation to establish the potential of complying with the statement of work. Only those firms presenting such documentation will be considered. Otherwise, EPA will proceed to negotiate with Energy and Environmental Research Corporation. (0126)

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