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.
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.