Sentences with phrase «coal combustion»

It was considered a model of successful recycling of coal combustion waste until tests of nearby groundwater wells discovered arsenic and lead levels exceeding drinking water standards, according to city water tests.

Long - time residents of the area, they know first - hand the effects of living near the plant and its piles of dry coal combustion waste, or coal ash.

For a more complete treatment of the processes involved in coal combustion, see the article coal utilization.

Global anthropogenic emissions of mercury presented here are based on emission inventories and include industrial emissions as well as coal combustion.

So, using this estimate, how many trees per year would you have to plant to absorb all the CO2 created by coal combustion?

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

Regarding the conclusion, another crucial flaw is that Q doesn't seem to believe or care that coal combustion contributes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Coal combustion generates the most CO2 emissions per unit of energy.

We need a replacement for cheap low tech coal combustion for power production.

Many people prefer coal combustion to renewable energy because it seems to be cheaper.

It finds that the overall economic costs of health impacts from coal combustion in the EU at up to 62.3 billion Euros.

Remember, Coal combustion releases CO2 sequestered millions of years ago permanently into the environment.

Stopping coal combustion with all «deliberate speed» would be most helpful in doing so.

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 aluminum.

A one percentage point improvement in the efficiency of a conventional pulverised coal combustion plant results in a 2 - 3 % reduction in CO2 emissions.

Power plants are not required to beneficially reuse coal combustion residuals (CCRs), but we recognize the importance this practice has on the environment.

We strive to continuously improve the lives of our customers by identifying beneficial uses for coal combustion byproducts (CCB); recycling used oil; and engaging in water, biodiversity and habitat conservation activities whenever possible.

Such fly ash is not typically produced by natural phenomena like volcanic eruptions — except those that set off coal combustion like the massive ones that followed a space rock's impact 66 million years ago to end the Cretaceous period.

distinctly different from the conventional coal combustion power station.

As for «the responsibility for CO2», according to the EPA coal combustion represents about 39 percent of electricity generated in the USA, but accounts for 75 percent of the CO2 emissions from electricity generation, which accounts for 32 percent of total US emissions.

As for «the responsibility for CO2», according to the EPA coal combustion represents about 39 percent of electricity generated in the USA, but accounts for 75 percent of the CO2 emissions from electricity generation, which accounts for 32 percent of total US emissions.

The problem, of course, is that coal combustion remains king in industrial and industrializing economies, with China's coal plans being the dominant factor in greenhouse projections for decades to come.

This «indicates RCP8.5 and other «business - as - usual scenarios» consistent with high CO2 forcing from vast future coal combustion are exceptionally unlikely,» they found.

A detailed overview of HELE coal combustion technologies was presented to the workshop by IEACCC's General Manager, Andrew Mitchener.

Rights - of - way on public lands result in landscape and habitat fragmentation, while coal combustion produces a number of gaseous byproducts, including CO2, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and methane — which exacerbate climate change and are associated with ground - level ozone (smog), air pollution, and acid rain.

Progress Energy owns two of the sites, both of which store coal combustion waste for the Asheville Plant located in North Carolina.

The amount of heat emitted during coal combustion depends largely on the amounts of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen present in the coal and, to a lesser extent, on the sulfur content.

By contrast, U.S. coal combustion produces some 100 million tons of toxic material annually.

The agency projects modest growth in coal combustion through 2040, in part because the EIA is bearish on renewables.

A number of old coal combustion stations were due to close in 2014, putting the UK in danger of running out of power in the second half of this decade.

His rapid - fire mind allowed us to fit in a long list of issues, from the ebbing and surging of China's power over the centuries to the merits of Honda Civics and a low - meat diet, from the persistent threat of terrorism and nuclear war to what he says is the fantasy of capturing and burying carbon dioxide from coal combustion at a scale the atmosphere might notice.

The comment, made during a Jan. 17 interview with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle, essentially explains how the kind of cap and trade mechanism sought by both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain (the latter at least in his platform, if not on the stump) would make coal combustion ever more costly (unless the world finally gets serious about investing in large - scale testing and deployment of systems for capturing and burying carbon dioxide).

Ma also calculated the expected number of premature deaths in China in the future if the country meets its current targets to restrict coal combustion and emissions through a combination of energy policies and pollution controls.

As just one sign of resistance there in the absence of concrete steps by China, see the report released this morning by Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, on China's unrelenting drive to build its prosperity on coal combustion (following the American pattern of course).

A staggering 80 percent of China's electrical power is derived from highly - polluting coal combustion.

At approximately the 1 tonne - CO2 / day scale, the testing involved the use of CO2 Solutions» proprietary 1T1 carbonic anhydrase enzyme to efficiently capture CO2 from both natural gas and coal combustion flue gases.

Nevertheless, acid rain remains a serious and even increasing issue in many areas — especially in Russia and China, where coal combustion without the use of «scrubbers» remains common.

Measures to enable, say, wind power to compete more effectively with coal - based electricity invite an outcome that is the worst of both worlds: coal combustion continues, even as wind power subsidies benefit developers while adding to budget woes.

Waste can be further minimised through the use of high efficiency coal combustion technologies.