In recent years, subbituminous coal from the Powder River Basin and lignites from Texas and North Dakota have captured an increasing share of the power generation market involving pulverized coal-fired power plants. However, these coals contain relatively large amounts of moisture, which affect unit performance, stack emissions and plant maintenance costs. The moisture also results in fuel hand...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are major toxic air pollutants released during incomplete combustion of coal. PAH emissions are especially problematic in China because of their reliance on coal-powered energy. The prenatal period is a window of susceptibility to neurotoxicants. To determine the health benefits of reducing air pollution related to coal-burning, we compared molecular bioma...

background and objectives: active coal is applied in tissue culture media as the absorbant of phenolic compounds and toxic materials; but no research has been done regarding its direct application like spray on plants. application of this material as the carbone source is based on researches done by sucrose; which had highly positive effect on plant growth and development. thus; a hypothesis wa...

Sulfur emission from coal combustion presents many environmental problems. The techniques used to reduce the amount of sulfur in coal before combustion, include physical, chemical and biological processes.Biological processes based on degradation of sulfur compounds by microorganisms offer many advantages over the conventional physical and chemical processes. The processes are performed und...

A survey of 3,200 U.S. residents focused on two issues associated with the use of nuclear and coal fuels to produce electrical energy. The first was the association between risk beliefs and preferences for coal and nuclear energy. As expected, concern about nuclear power plant accidents led to decreased support for nuclear power, and those who believed that coal causes global warming preferred ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to regulate emissions of mercury to the atmosphere from coal-fired power plants. However, there is still debate over whether the limits should be placed on a nationwide or a plant-specific basis. Before a nationwide limit is selected, it must be demonstrated that local deposition of mercury from coal-fired power plants does not impose...

The performance of a power generation process is most often evaluated in terms of energy efficiency and emissions. Emissions generated by coal-fired power generation are among the main sources of pollution (CO2, dust and acid gases) in China and other coal-intensive countries worldwide. However, this is only the downstream aspect of a coal plant performance, where focus is most often placed on ...

Executive Summary This report examines three different methods of carbon dioxide (CO 2) capture for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) systems for coal fired power plants. The purpose of this report is to compare the three distinct technologies for overall feasibility of large scale implementation on standard coal power plants. Many political and economic reasons have forced industries, inc...

For coal-fired power plants information of the moisture content in the coal is important to determine and control the dynamical behavior of the power plants. E.g. a high moisture content in the coal can result in a decreased maximum load gradient of the plant. In this paper a method for estimating the moisture content of the coal is proposed based on a simple dynamic energy model of a coal mill...