EVALUATION OF THE DIRECT COST OF SULFUR ABATEMENT UNDER THE MAIN DESULFURIZATION TECHNOLOGIES

This study summarizes the available information on the technical chara cteristics and costs of those sulfur abatement technologies in operati on. at present or coming into operation in the near future. Relying on disaggregated source data and using engineering cost functions and va rious technical and economic assumptions the least cost curves of sulf ur abatement for all the European countries have been derived, and som e examples are presented Finally, a sensitivity analysis of abatement strategies and costs to some alternative assumptions about energy futu res is presented.