ClearSign Combustion Corporation announces that the Board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) unanimously voted to approve the Duplex demonstration project at a refinery location in the greater Los Angeles area.
This project, which was previously announced in September 2017, will demonstrate ClearSign’s Duplex technology as a Best Available Control Technology (BACT) candidate to achieve sub 5 ppm NOx emissions levels in refinery process heaters and other types of fired equipment. The project will involve a retrofit installation of five Duplex Plug & Play™ burners on a process heater within World Oil Refinery’s South Gate, California refinery as a demonstration of the technology for the District and refiner.
Funding for the project is a collaborative effort that includes contributions from the District, ClearSign, and World Oil Refining. The addition of World Oil to the project was subject to final review and approval by SCAQMD Board of Directors, and once commenced is slated to span approximately one year. Based on preliminary estimates, the project is expected to result in a reduction of over 15 tons of NOx emissions compared to current operations, without the utilization of catalysts, chemicals, utility consumption or other inefficient requirements of established technologies.
