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Assessment of Health Benefits By comparing the cost saving associated to the
avoided emissions with the additional capital and
Health benefits, in the form of reduced premature operating costs and power penalty associated with
mortality and reduced morbidity, are the main goals the required plant modifications, it is possible to
of reducing pollutant emissions from large combu- evaluate the economic profitability of plant retrofit-
stion plants. Nowadays several approaches exist ting.
for monetising these health-benefits. Evaluating by the use of these models the cost sav-
Main objective of these models for the monetary ing related to the tonne of avoided emitted pollut-
valuation of damages of pollution is to account ants for the Turkish case described above, it results
for all costs, market and non-market, resulting in for each technology a virtual return time of the in-
a figure expressed as USD per tonne of emitted vestment cost in the range of 6-18 months.
(pNriOmxa),ryppaortlilcuutalanttes:maamttmerosnuiab(N2H.53)m, nicitrroonge(PnMox2id.5e)s,
particulate matter sub 10 micron (PM 10), sulphur Paper presented at Power-Gen Europe, Milan, 21st
Cdioomxidpeou(nSdOs2)(NaMndVONCosn).-Methane Volatile Organic – 23rd June 2016
Silvio Arienti
Silvio is Power Process Director in Amec Foster national companies. His most significant experien-
Wheeler, with a first class degree in Chemical En- ce is the Isab Energy 512 MW IGCC plant project,
gineering. where he was responsible of the process design of
Silvio joined the company in year 1980. After a long the plant and spent one year in field for plant start-
experience as process engineer on refinery, phar- up of the gasification unit. Silvio was nominated
maceutical, petrochemical and power projects, he Power Process Director in year 2010, responsible
joined the power process group as process mana- of the power process department.
ger. In this role he had the opportunity to develop a During his long career he has presented several
deep experience in the design of fossil fuel power papers in international conferences, covering many
plants and chemical generation plants through ga- aspects of power plants design and operation.
sification, working for a large number of major inter-
Luca Mancuso
Luca is Process Director in Amec Foster Wheeler, worldwide projects. In the field of CCS, he has suc-
with a first class degree in Chemical Engineering. cessfully worked for a large number of renowned
Luca joined Amec Foster Wheeler since 2000 as international companies and organisations. The ac-
process engineer. In Amec Foster Wheeler, Luca quisition of this expertise allowed Luca to publish
had the opportunity to develop a deep experience several papers and to present them at international
in the design of fossil-based power and chemical conferences on gasification technologies and gre-
generation plants, following feasibility studies, basic enhouse gas control techniques.
design and detailed engineering phases of several
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