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.

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All amounts are in pounds

Chemical	Air	Water	Land	Off-Site Disposal	Total
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