An Action Plan for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is critical to the future of our world and Airborne is part of the solution. Airborne's multi-pollutant flue gas purification technology will enable coal-fired power producers to reduce Green House Gas emissions (GHG) in connection with their overall power generation and pollution abatement systems.

The Airborne Process™ makes CO₂ reductions possible for a number of reasons:

1. The Airborne Process™ is more energy efficient than other flue gas purification processes, thereby requiring a lower parasitic load relative to the amount of electricity generated.
2. The Airborne process allows for the burning of higher sulphur-content / higher-BTU coal at higher temperatures. This increases combustion efficiencies, requiring less coal to produce the same energy while producing less CO₂.
3. The Airborne Process™ serves to further reduce CO₂ emissions as a result of reduced transportation requirements. Because the Airborne Process™ allows for the economical and environmentally acceptable use of local high sulphur coal, it is no longer necessary to transport low-sulphur coal from the West to Central and East coast states. coast states.
4. While wet limestone forced oxidation (LSFO) scrubbing is the most common technology used to remove SO₂, this process does produce significant CO₂ emissions.
1. Every tonne of SO₂ that is scrubbed with a LSFO system generates 0.7 tonnes of CO₂.
2. The Airborne Process™ does not emit any CO₂ and therefore replacing LSFO technology with Airborne's Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) technology can provide a significant CO₂ reduction.
5. The application of fertilizers produced by the Airborne process and the resulting increased biomass will serve to sequester incremental CO₂.

The table below indicates the potential reductions in flue gas emissions to the atmosphere as a result of implementing the Airborne process. This table was co-developed by Environment Canada and details the annual expected CO2 reduction in tonnes.