Sentences with phrase «coal combustion products»

Duke is a utility member of the American Coal Ash Association, a trade group whose stated mission is «to advance the management and use of coal combustion products in ways that are environmentally responsible, technically sound, commercially competitive, and supportive of a sustainable global community.»

Coal combustion products are expected to continue to play a major role in the concrete market.

There is increasing awareness of the opportunities to reprocess power station waste into valuable materials for use primarily in the construction and civil engineering industry (see coal combustion products).

Coal combustion products (CCPs) are the by - products generated from burning coal in coal - fired power plants.

Air pollution control devices called scrubbers use a sprayed slurry of ground limestone and water to remove sulfur dioxide from gases formed in coal combustion, said Tom Schmaltz, environmental director for Headwaters Resources, a world leader in coal combustion products.

Not exact matches

Usnea lapponica is an example of this as it is especially sensitive to sulfur dioxide, a by - product from combustion of petroleum and coal.

Natural gas is widely considered to be an environmentally cleaner fuel than coal because it does not produce detrimental by - products such as sulfur, mercury, ash and particulates and because it provides twice the energy per unit of weight with half the carbon footprint during combustion.

If you consider the damage burning coal does to the atmosphere and the very serious health impacts from the combustion products coal power is a very false economy.

This is happening to thousands of Americans right now — and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumicoal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumicoal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumiCoal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumicoal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumiCoal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum.

Why can't we say to coal burning utilities that we're happy to pay for their power, as long as they invest in technologies to keep the products of combustion from destroying the atmosphere?