POPLAR RIVER POWER STATION 



Operation 



The two units operated for the full reporting period. The 1984 oper- 

 ating statistics for the two units are shown in Table 1: 



Table 1. 1984 Operating Statistics for Generating Units No. 1 and 

 No. 2 



Unit 1 Unit 2 



Hours of Operation 

 Gross MWhr Generated 

 Availability (hours) (percent) 

 Capacity Factor(percent) 

 Number of Start Ups 

 Coal Consumed (tonnes) 

 Oil Consumed (tonnes) 

 Hours in Period 



The average sulphur content as analyzed by the Power Station's Labo- 

 ratory in 1984 was 0.8 percent. Inter-lab testing of standard coal 

 samples indicates that the station's method of analysis (bomb washing 

 titration) is systematically biased high. During 1984, the results 

 of such round robin analyses indicated that these results were, on 

 average, 53 percent greater than the mean of all the other laborato- 

 ries. 



The average of three samples of the coal analyzed in 1984 by the 

 Eschka method was 0.48 percent sulphur. The Eschka method is des- 

 cribed in the 1976 Edition of the "American Society for Testing and 

 Materials," procedure D3177-75. 



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