1. Profile

(1) Project site:

It is located in the east of KOSTOLAC Town, Pozarevac City in Serbia, on the west side of the Danube River.

(2) Owner:

EPS.

(3) Capacity:

Dust removal and desulfurization of flue gas from 1×135 MW coal-fired power plant.

(4) Date of operation:

June 2015.

(5) Investment, construction and operation:

CMEC was the general contractor, the Export-Import Bank of China provided 80% of the funds required for the project through a 20-year loan, and the Serbian Government provided the rest of the funds. Fujian Longking Co., Ltd. was the EPC contractor of the dust removal project.

2. Major environmental problems to be addressed

Emission control of SO₂ and particulate matter in flue gas from the coal-fired power plant.

3. Environmental standards and/or main index limits to be followed

According to IED-2010 75 EC Council Directive 96/61/EEC Concerning Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control and Emission Standard of Air Pollutants for Thermal Power Plants (GB 13223-2011), the particulate matter emission concentration shall be ≤50 mg/m³ and SO₂ emission concentration shall be ≤200mg/m³.

4. Technological process

The flue gas is emitted from the chimney after dust removal by the electrostatic precipitator, limestone-gypsum wet desulfurization and wet deep purification by the electrostatic precipitator.

5. Environmental pollution control effects

Particulate matter emission concentration was≤10 mg/m³ and SO₂ emission concentration was≤35 mg/m³.

6. Social benefits

It has created new jobs for local people and effectively promoted local employment. The local community has benefited from the improvement of the surrounding infrastructures including roads, schools and so forth brought about by the project.

7. Economic benefits

The project promoted the local economic development, and local companies provided services such as maintenance and spare parts for the project, which advanced the development of local upstream and downstream industries.

Project significance: In order to revitalize the national economy, the Serbian government put forward the strategy of revitalizing industrialization, giving priority to the construction and renovation of infrastructures. The “Belt and Road” Initiative takes infrastructure construction as one of its major construction measures, which is in line with the needs of Serbia. The project was the first EPC electric power project undertaken by China in Europe, and also witnessed the debut of WESP with metal polar plates in the European environmental protection market, proving that the dust removal technologies and equipment of China and Chinese standards were recognized in Europe.