Sentences with phrase «emissions from coal use»

Coal cleaning by washing and beneficiation removes this associated material, prepares the coal to customer specifications and is an important step in reducing emissions from coal use.

A number of technologies, collectively known as flue gas desulphurisation (FGD), have been developed to reduce SO2 emissions from coal use.

Not exact matches

Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

Additionally, global kerosene use has been estimated to emit up to 200 million tons of CO2 annually, which is the equivalent of emissions from approximately 60 large U.S. coal plants, heightening the need to develop sustainable alternatives.

Those actions would follow the Obama administration's policies, which include regulating emissions from coal - fired power plants and increasing renewable energy use.

In cases where a regulatory proposal deals with carbon emissions (e.g. regulation of emissions from vehicles or coal - fired power plants), SCC is used to express the monetary value of changes in emission amounts.

The scrubbers are a commonly used method for decreasing carbon emissions from industries such as coal - fired power plants, which produce more than 14 billion metric tons of carbon each year.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

«As the Clean Air Act and amendments have taken effect there has been a reduction in sulfur emissions from coal combustion, so that the amount of atmospheric sulfur deposited each year is only 25 percent of what it used to be.

They also must control mercury air emissions from coal - fired power plants, waste incineration and related industrial processes, and reduce or eliminate mercury use in small - scale gold mining and chemical manufacturing.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Using executive authority, the President will issue a new rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants in the United States.

China is following suit, according to a news story in the same issue of Science, launching the Erdos coal - to - liquid plant in Inner Mongolia that will capture some of its 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 emissions and use it to flush out oil from nearby fields.

The patent, granted in March to UA, claims the chemical make - up of the imido - acid salts for use in capturing CO2 and other gases from natural gas and post-combustion emissions such as those from coal - fired power plants.

B [a] P is a constituent of the sooty yellow emissions of coke ovens (coke, derived from superheated coal, is used in steelmaking).

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

Countries and regions report their CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by counting what they have used, such as the amount of oil, coal or gas they have burned.

1750 - 1850 did see coal use / CO2 emissions rise 18 - times bigger, but from a very small start level.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

The growth rate of fossil fuel emissions increased from 1.5 % / year during 1980 — 2000 to 3 % / year in 2000 — 2012, mainly because of increased coal use [4]--[5].

From ramping up its carbon intensity target to limiting coal use to implementing an emissions trading scheme, recent signs show that the country is already...

Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

Typical British farmers use more electricity - both directly and indirectly for the processing of its fertilizers, feeds, and additives - and are thereby saddled with the emissions from lots of dirty coal plants.

The piece focuses on a study coming next month from Max Auffhammer and others at the University of California, Berkeley, which concludes that growth in China's coal use and emissions had been underestimated and would easily outpace any gains from efficiency or other shifts in industrialized countries.

China is the world's largest SO2 emitter, mostly due to the burning of high - sulfur coal in its many coal - fired power plants, which lack the technology used in many other countries to remove sulfur from smoke stack emissions.

Third, new technologies, such as underground coal gasification and especially carbon capture and storage, can — if given substantial financial support — reduce emissions substantially from coal use in power plants and industrial facilities.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

The research began as a project looking into using quick - growing algae to sequester carbon in CO2 emissions from coal power plants.

After all, the reality is that Obama has moved pretty aggressively, if quietly, to roll out restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions through regulations, tighter standards for energy use and vehicle fuel economy and pursue policies fostering a shift from coal to gas.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[4] While a range of positions is possible, it seems particularly strange that ExxonMobil takes the position that it does in that future global warming will be caused most by emissions from use of coal rather than by emissions from use of petroleum or natural gas.

Mercury emissions from coal - fired power plants can be reduced by using chemical filters, but while this is increasingly the norm in the rich world many developing countries have yet to catch up.

The team used detailed process simulations, lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analyses, and cost analyses in a comprehensive analytical framework to assess 16 alternative system configurations that involve gasification - based coproduction of Fischer - Tropsch liquid (FTL) fuels and electricity from coal and / or biomass, with and without capture and storage of byproduct CO2.

However, the speed of change in the power sector is not matched elsewhere: CO2 emissions from oil use in transport almost catch up with those from coal - fired power plants (which are flat) by 2040, and there is also a 20 % rise in emissions from industry.

As defined in Title 26 of the US Code (The Internal Revenue Code of 1986), refined coal means a fuel which is a liquid, gaseous or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as a feedstock; and is sold with the reasonable expectation that it will be used to produce steam, resulting in a qualified emission reduction.

Power sector CO2 emissions declined by 363 million metric tons between 2005 and 2013, due to a decline in coal's generation share and growing use of natural gas and renewables, but the CO2 emissions are projected to change only modestly from 2013 through 2040 in the 3 baseline cases used in this report.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

In a state that's increasingly facing climate - change - induced heat waves and drought, regulators have refused to recognize the obvious pollution and carbon emissions from coal plants and the fact that solar PV uses very little water.

The American Lung Association supports more stringent controls on air emissions from electricity production, and in particular the phase out on coal - fired generation to enable electric vehicles used across the country to contribute to overall reductions in air emissions.

These included a mix of state and federal policies designed to increase the use of renewable energy, as well as reduce carbon dioxide and mercury emissions from coal - fired power plants.

As an economy reduces its emissions it will start with the cheapest abatement measures (energy savings) and then move to the more expensive measures by replacing energy - using equipment and switching from high - emission sources such as coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear power.

Moving the current average global efficiency rate of coal - fired power plants from 33 % to 40 %, using more advanced off - the - shelf technology, could cut two gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

In June 1989, President George H. W. Bush proposed the use of a cap - and - trade system to cut by half sulfur dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and consequent acid rain.

Experiences in developed nations such as Japan could provide good examples for achieving public consensus on coal use by showing how CCT uses coal more efficiently; that it is much cleaner than conventional plants; and that emissions from plants using CCT are very close to that of gas - fired power plants.

For the short term, carbon pricing and more stringent pollution control regulations may be used to reduce emissions, minimise local air pollution, and limit and ultimately phase out generation from subcritical coal - fired power stations.

China has a five - year plan where it is seeking to reduce all emissions from coal - fired power and other industrial uses.