Cumberland Fossil Plant Emissions

What TVA is doing about emissions at Cumberland

TVA has taken a number of steps to make the efficient generation of power at Cumberland as clean as possible:

Wet limestone scrubbers remove 95 percent of sulfur dioxide from the plant’s emissions.
Both Cumberland units are equipped with selective catalytic reduction systems completed in 2004 and low-NOx burners that reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by about 90 percent.

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All amounts are in pounds

Chemical	Air	Water	Land	Off-Site Disposal	Total
Hydrochloric Acid (aerosol)	250,000	0	0	0	250,000
Hydrogen Fluoride	33,000	0	0	0	33,000
Sulfuric Acid (aerosol)	2,900,000	0	0	0	2,900,000
Ammonia	28,140	2,300	0	0	30,440
Antimony Compounds
Arsenic Compounds	247	170	40,700	0	41,117
Barium Compounds	401	0	340,000	9	340,410
Beryllium Compounds	18	0	8,632	0	8,650
Cadmium Compounds
Chromium Compounds	374	97	78,100	0	78,571
Cobalt Compounds	74	0	18,610	0	18,684
Copper Compounds	307	6,600	59,500	0	66,407
Lead Compounds	280	0	52,140	0	52,420
Manganese Compounds	479	76	170,000	0	170,555
Mercury Compounds	85	120	258	0	463
Nickel Compounds	442	1,500	85,730	0	87,672
Selenium Compounds	4,001	6,000	5,480	0	15,481
Silver Compounds
Thallium Compounds	37	0	25,260	0	25,297
Vanadium Compounds	396	11,000	167,100	0	178,496
Zinc Compounds	3,932	6,000	206,700	0	216,632
Benzo(g,h,i)perylene	0.4	0	0.3	0	0.7
Naphthalene	44	0	0	0	44
Nitrate Compounds	0	260,000	0	0	260,000
Dioxin (grams)	3	0	0	0	3
Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds	10	0	14	0	24
Hydrazine
Total	3,222,268	293,863	1,258,224	9	4,774,364
Gross MWh Generated:	15,479,360
Pounds Released per MWh:	0.308