The corrosion performance of alloys in coal gasification systems is of increasing industrial interest as more advanced coal-fired power generating systems are developed. It is necessary to consider the performance of candidate materials under likely exposure conditions to ensure that components have adequate lifetimes. Materials performance can influence the economic feasibility of these system...

Due to the extensive amount of data suggesting the hazards of these compounds, 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Priority Pollutant List. Emissions of these PAHs in the flue gas from the combustion of four coals were measured during four 1000h combustion runs using the 0.1MW heat-input (MWth) bench-scale fluidized bed combustor (FBC). An...

Li Si, Kong Ruixue, Sun Lin, Li Sifan, Yang Shuangchun* (Liaoning Shihua University. Fushun, Liaoning, China. 113001) Abstract—Industrial wastewater is a kind of wastewater that generate in the industrial production process. The wastewater from refining and coal carbonization contains high concentration of phenols pollutants. In this paper, study on phenol treatment methods in industrial wastew...

The purpose of the air distribution system in a fluidised bed combustor is to provide a reasonably uniform spread of combustion air over the entire horizontal cross-sectional area of the bed. One of the simplest, and hence cheapest, forms of air distributor is the sparge pipe design, in which an array of horizontal pipes is fitted at the base of the bed. Combustion air is then supplied to one e...

Abstract Oxy-coal combustion with pressurized fluidized beds has recently emerged as a promising carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for coal-fired power plants. Although large number of energy efficiency analyses have shown that an increase in pressure can further the net plant efficiency, there are few experimental studies oxy-coal conducted on bed combustors/boilers continuous coal f...

Co-combustion of chicken litter with coal was performed in a laboratory-scale fluidized bed combustor to investigate the effect of chicken litter addition on the partitioning behavior of mercury. Gaseous total and elemental mercury concentrations in the flue gas were measured online, and ash was analyzed for particlebound mercury along with other elemental and surface properties. The mercury ma...

Combustion system development in power generation is discussed ranging from the pre-environmental era in which the objectives were complete combustion with a minimum of excess air and the capability of scale up to increased boiler unit performances, through the environmental era (1970–), in which reduction of combustion generated pollution was gaining increasing importance, to the present and n...

This paper estimates indirect benefits of improved air quality induced by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”. The recent increase in natural gas supply led to displacement of coal-fired electricity by cleaner natural gasfired generation. Using detailed spatial panel data comprising the near universe of US power plants, we find that coal generation decreased by 28%. Further, fracking decreased ...

The Clean Coal Technology (CCT) Demonstration Program is a government and industry co-funded effort to demonstrate a new generation of innovative coal utilization processes in a series of " showcase " facilities built across the country. These projects are on a scale sufficiently large to demonstrate commercial worthiness and to generate data for design, construction, operation, and technical/e...

The evolution of life on Earth has been interrupted by several mass extinction events. The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction [65 million years ago (Ma)] is associated with the impact of a large bolide (1). On the basis of extensive data (2–4), the K-T boundary is characterized by a palynological extinction horizon coincident with a geochemical marker bed commonly succeeded by a bed rich in f...