20-03: AEP/Buckeye Power Cardinal Unit 3 Natural Draft Cooling Tower Shell FGD DischargeThe first installation of routing the discharge from a wet flue gas desulphurization(FGD) system into a natural draft cooling tower shell in the Western Hemispherewas completed at the 620 MW supercritical coal fired Unit 3 at AEP BuckeyePowers Cardinal Plant in Brilliant, Ohio in 2011. The cooling tower was alsoconverted at the time from a crossflow to a counterflow configuration with afiberglass fill support structure (FRP). This paper will describe

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