Kingston Fossil Plant Emissions
What TVA is doing about emissions at Kingston
TVA has taken a number of steps to make the efficient generation of power at Kingston as clean as possible:
- The plant burns a low-sulfur blend of coal in all nine units to limit emissions of sulfur dioxide.
- Two scrubbers were completed in 2010 at a cost of $475 million to further reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by up to 95 percent.
- All nine units use low-NOx burners to reduce the production of nitrogen oxides.
- All nine units operate SCRs that further reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by about 90 percent.
Kingston Fossil Plant Emissions
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Toxics Release Inventory
2015 data
All amounts are in pounds
Chemical | Air | Water | Land | Off-Site Disposal | Total |
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Hydrochloric Acid (aerosol) | 97,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97,000 |
Hydrogen Fluoride | 8,600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,600 |
Sulfuric Acid (aerosol) | 500,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 500,000 |
Ammonia | 47,370 | 770 | 0 | 0 | 48,140 |
Antimony Compounds | |||||
Arsenic Compounds | 53 | 870 | 17,000 | 230 | 18,153 |
Barium Compounds | 313 | 14,000 | 520,000 | 5,808 | 540,121 |
Beryllium Compounds | |||||
Cadmium Compounds | |||||
Chromium Compounds | 97 | 500 | 29,600 | 320 | 30,517 |
Cobalt Compounds | |||||
Copper Compounds | 101 | 4,000 | 33,611 | 390 | 38,102 |
Lead Compounds | 69 | 0 | 24,310 | 320 | 24,700 |
Manganese Compounds | 154 | 0 | 75,000 | 620 | 75,774 |
Mercury Compounds | 47 | 0 | 161 | 2 | 210 |
Nickel Compounds | 107 | 130 | 31,600 | 360 | 32,197 |
Selenium Compounds | |||||
Silver | |||||
Thallium Compounds | |||||
Vanadium Compounds | 105 | 2,400 | 69,000 | 760 | 72,265 |
Zinc Compounds | 989 | 2,400 | 84,600 | 990 | 88,979 |
Benzo(g,h,i)perylene | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Naphthalene | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
Nitrate Compounds | 0 | 66,000 | 0 | 0 | 66,000 |
Dioxin (grams) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Hydrazine | |||||
Total | 655,021 | 91,070 | 884,887 | 9,800 | 1,640,779 |
Gross MWh Generated: | 4,352,224 | ||||
Pounds Released per MWh: | 0.377 |