Costs and benefits of reducing air pollutant emissions as a result of bringing coal and lignite-fired power plants into compliance with BAT LCP conclusions

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Unit external costs of air pollution and total benefits of reductions due to compliance with BAT LCP conclusions_

Pollutants	SO2	NOx	PM10	PM2.5
Avoided emission [Mg/year]	41 123	36 710	1 092	468
Unit external costs of emissions [EURO/Mg]	14 289	8 457	27 684	42 634
Total benefits [EURO/year]	587 613 339	310 458 410	30 230 085	19 952 156
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Total costs of reducing emissions of the examined pollutants from coal and lignite combustion, related to compliance with BAT LCP Conclusions

Type of fuel	Costs of reducing emissions [EURO/year]
	SO2	NOx	TSP
Coal	9 608 019	17 897 638	4 996
Lignite	8 274 080	3 950 497	2 715
Total	17 882 099	21 848 135	7 710

Product emission factors for coal- and lignite-fired power plants in 2017 and after adjustment to the BAT conclusions

Fuel type	2017			After adjustment to the BAT conclusions
	SO2 Pcee [kg/GJ]	NOx Pcee [kg/GJ]	TSP Pcee [kg/GJ]	SO2 Pcee [kg/GJ]	NOx Pcee [kg/GJ]	TSP Pcee [kg/GJ]
Coal	0.186	0.254	0.0113	0.119	0.135	0.0075
Lignite1)	0.282	0.231	0.0120	0.146	0.187	0.0086

Avoided emissions from combustion of the examined fuels in different types of boilers due to compliance with the BAT LCP conclusions

Type of boiler and fuel	Power rate [MWt]	Avoided emissions [Mg/year]
		SO2	NOx	TSP
KP-WK	300–1000	7 407	3 760	389
KP-WK	≥1000	8 403	24 491	540
KF-WK	300–1000	319	350	01)
KF-WK	≥1000	01)	16	01)
KP-WB	300–1000	1 111	706	49
KP-WB	≥1000	22 423	7 387	152
KF-WB	≥1000	1 460	01)	430
Total		41 123	36 710	1 560

Average operating hours of facilities based on data from the Ministry of Environment [Podręcznik dotyczący zasad udzielania odstępstw… 2017]

Technology	Operating hours [h/year]
KP-WK	4000
KF-WK	5500
KP-WB	5800
KF-WB	6500

Unit costs of SO2, NOx, and TSP emission reductions for existing LCP facilities with no high-efficiency flue gas cleaning systems

Type of boiler and fuel	Power rate [MWt]	CAPEX and OPEX 2021 [EURO/Mg]
		SO2	NOx	TSP
KP-WK	300–1000	565.53	720.11	6.60
KP-WK	≥1000	630.49	605.88	4.50
KF-WK	300–1000	379.61	968.25	4.731)
KF-WK	≥1000	363.681)	764.28	3.201)
KP-WB	300–1000	388.39	576.90	10.04
KP-WB	≥1000	330.79	479.67	6.81
KF-WB	300–1000	350.07	694.67	4.05
KF-WB	≥1000	291.20	549.011)	2.75