The Plant The Altbach/Deizisau CHP plant ensures reliable, economical and environmentally-friendly power supply. EnBW operates several plants at the site with a total output of around 1,200 MW, including the 476 MW coal-fired block HKW 1. The district heating generated supplies a considerable proportion of the industrial enterprises in Esslingen and Stuttgart, as well as private households in t...

The hot strength of coke prepared from an acid-washed lignite by briquetting-carbonization before and after CO2 gasification was, for the first time, investigated in this work. at 1000°C was higher than measured a room temperature. resulted linear decrease with reaction time. lignite-coke showed faster during gasification, compared to conventional cokes derived caking coal or non-or slightly co...

We present results of a life cycle assessment (LCA) of Marcellus shale gas used for power generation. The analysis employs the most extensive data set of any LCA of shale gas to date, encompassing data from actual gas production and power generation operations. Results indicate that a typical Marcellus gas life cycle yields 466 kg CO2eq/MWh (80% confidence interval: 450-567 kg CO2eq/MWh) of gre...

The present study investigates the impact of various factors affecting coal-fired power plant economics of 210 MW subcritical unit situated in north India for electricity generation. In this paper, the cost data of various units of thermal power plant in terms of power output capacity have been fitted using power law with the help of the data collected from a literature search. To have a realis...

The Pulverize is a major part of the boiler combustion system and an important part in the system of steam power plant (PLTU). Pulverizer plant serves to break chunks of coal into the coal ash was then fed to the burner. Type of feed coal into a pulverize is cleaned with a value product pulverize optimum 30%. The percentage of this value greatly affects the production of steam in the boiler. Th...

Hearing loss was the second-most common illness reported to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in 2009. Furthermore, between 2000 and 2010, 30% of all noise-related injury complaints reported to MSHA were for coal preparation plant employees. Previous National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) studies have shown that vibrating screens are key noise sources to ad...

It is technically feasible to capture CO2 from the flue gas of a coal-fired power plant and various researchers are working to understand the fate of sequestered CO2 and its long term environmental effects. Sequestering CO2 significantly reduces the CO2 emissions from the power plant itself, but this is not the total picture. CO2 capture and sequestration consumes additional energy, thus loweri...

The airborne particles were collected near the power plant and the opencast coal mine of the Kolubara basin. This paper represents the part of the one-year project aiming to collect, characterize and then determine the mineralogical composition of the airborne particles. Samples of deposited particulate matter from the air were collected between March 2007 and March 2008. Mean concentrations co...

Výpočet možnosti vzniku průtrže v dlouhých důlních dílech The article brings results of the evaluation of a possibility of coal and gas outburst origin on the basis of calculation of active forces that try to induce an outburst and passive forces that prevent an outburst from occurring. The analysis of outbursts from the Paskov Mine, Staříč plant, shows that decisive indicators, by which a pron...

As of 1998, electric utility companies burning coal or oil are required to report their annual releases of toxic chemicals to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), a national compilation of multimedia (air, water, land) releases of over 600 chemicals and chemical categories designated as toxic by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). TRI reports for 1998 must be filed with EPA by July 1...