Stockton Cogeneration Facility
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{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} Stockton Cogeneration Facility is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Air Products & Chemicals in Stockton, California. The plant provides power to Air Products' Stockton chemicals facility.
The plant was retired as a dedicated coal plant in 2012, and converted to run on biomass.[1]
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Biomass conversion
In Dec. 2008, Air Products announced plans to use biomass to offset some of the plant's coal consumption.[2]
Plant Data
- Owner: Air Products Energy Enterprise
- Parent Company: Air Products & Chemicals
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 60 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 60 MW (1988)
- Location: 1010 Zephyr St., Stockton, CA 95206
- GPS Coordinates: 37.912456, -121.261444
- Electricity Production: 445,218 MWh (2005)
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- CO2 Emissions: 564,030 tons (2006)
- SO2 Emissions: 167 tons (2002)
- SO2 Emissions per MWh: 0.75 lb/MWh
- NOx Emissions: 102 tons (2002)
- Mercury Emissions:
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ "Stockton CoGen coal plant to be retired," Power Engineering, Mar 16, 2012
- ↑ Air Products’ Stockton Plant Working to Use Biomass in Its Fuel Mix, Air Products & Chemicals website, Dec. 2008.
- Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
- Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
- NETL Coal Power Plant Database, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
- AirData Query Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed April 2009.
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