Sentences with phrase «grade lignite»
China uses 45 % of the world's coal, much of it low grade lignite, and scrubbers cost money to operate so they are frequently down for «Maintenance».
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Behind the scenes, the company has moved to license the technology worldwide, hoping to sell its gasification and carbon capture technology to countries such as China, India, Pakistan and Poland which have reserves of low - grade lignite.
The 582 megawatt facility is expected to burn through around 4 million tonnes of low - grade lignite coal a year, all mined from the hills just behind the plant.
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That plant, which will turn the low - grade coal lignite into burnable gases, is designed to capture 3.5 million tonnes of CO2 each year, or about two - thirds of what it will produce.
The latest government figures show that Poland generates more than 80 percent of its electricity from coal, a growing share of which is in the form of lignite, a low - grade mineral with high carbon content that is in ample supply in Poland's mines.
From 1950 to 2005, world coal production of all grades (anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous and lignite) grew substantially, but irregularly (table 3).