To provide the basis for clean and affordable energy in a competitive market is the reason why integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology is currently being developed further, while the existing IGCC prototype plants have the task of proving what is technically achievable. This contribution reports interim results of a comprehensive ongoing development potential study funded by th...

Electricity production in India is projected to expand dramatically in the near term to energize new industrial development, while also easing the energy shortages throughout the country. Much of the new growth in electricity production will be fueled by domestic coal resources; however, there is worldwide concern about increased coal use, as greater carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions from coal co...

In recent years, global warming has been a major issue due to continuous growth of greenhouse gas emissions from different sources. It has been estimated that the global average temperature will rise between 1.4 –5.8 °C by the year 2100 (Williams, 2002). The contributors to greenhouse effects are carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). The contr...

To date, biomass has not been a large source of power generation in the United States, despite the potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits from displacing coal with carbon neutral biomass. In this thesis, the fuel cycle GHG emissions of power generation from both dedicated biomass power plants and coal power plants with biomass co-firing are quantified using a model based on Argonne Nationa...

The purpose of this study is to comparatively evaluate four types of advanced conceptual power plants based on coal. With efficiency, costof-electricity, and emissions as main criteria, the evaluation was made under consistent design conditions and economic assumptions. The plants considered are a supercritical steam power plant (SC 580◦C), an indirectly coal-fired power system (HIPPS), an adva...

INTRODUCTION The acid rain provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide new incentives for the development of power generation technology with low SO 2 emissions. Detailed evaluations of possible NO x and air toxics emission limits also are required by the CAAA in the next few years. Furthermore, reauthorization of other key environmental legislation, such as the Clean Water A...

Coal consumption in Malaysia and Indonesia is growing at the rate of 9.7 and 4.7% per year since 2002, respectively. The increase in coal utilization usually tallies fairly well with the increase in CO2 emission. The present study attempts at predicting the emissions of CO2 from coal fired power plants from 2005 until 2020. The paper also analyzes the potential of carbon capture (CC) program as...

Benchmarking cleaner production performance is an effective way of pollution control and emission reduction in coal-fired power industry. A benchmarking method using two-stage super-efficiency data envelopment analysis for coal-fired power plants is proposed – firstly, to improve the cleaner production performance of DEA-inefficient or weakly DEA-efficient plants, then to select the benchmark f...