Sentences with phrase «install scrubbers»

In this environment, GE Capital invested up to $ 750 million to install scrubbers on two of the plant's three units in order to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency emissions rules, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule that took effect in 2015.
A classic example is coal - fired power plants in the United States that were built before the Clean Air Act and are thus exempt from the obligation to install scrubbers.
Most environmentalists were pushing a «command - and - control» approach, with federal officials requiring utilities to install scrubbers capable of removing the sulfur dioxide from power - plant exhausts.
In 1952, a few years after WWII, this happened in London: http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/fogandmist/casestudies.shtml Install scrubbers and then make the stacks higher, so the stuff drifts to China.
The use of scrubbers (yes China and India installed scrubbers although not used consistently) to remove SO2 along with the shift to natural gas means the amount of aerosols has not kept up with CO2 forcing.
Creating a new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the railroads, the inter-state highway system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to installing catalytic converters, installing scrubbers, or phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.
Installing scrubbers is the equally obvious first step to stall Arctic ice melt, if that is the policy goal.
After all, we installed scrubbers, and they have done very well.

Not exact matches

People initially thought it would require developing and installing new scrubbers at power plants at a cost of billions of dollars.
Nonetheless, the Department of Natural Resources issued a temporary shutdown order for the plant in December, prompting Appel and his colleagues to install more ozone scrubbers.
If we want to reduce CO2 emissions, make the coal, gas, and oil fired powerplants install CO2 scrubbers / processors and give tax incentives and lawsuit immunity to private investment for Nuke Plants.
American Electric installed three «scrubbers» at its largest power - generating unit at its John Amos Plant in West Virginia.
But the decrease in «aerosols» caused by All those spanking new scrubbers we installed from the 70s to 90s all over the world could have been the big contributors to the increase in temp in those decades.
One way CA refineries can meet their targets is to clean up their processes by installing equipment like flue gas scrubbers.
Or they may continue to purchase heavy fuel oil, but install» scrubbers» to reduce the output of SOx in order to have an equivalent means to meet the requirement.
Creating a new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the railroads, the interstate highway system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to installing catalytic converters and scrubbers, or phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.
After scrubbers were installed, the problem went away.
A number of the remaining, uncontrolled plants will need to determine the effectiveness of installing an FGD scrubber or a DSI system to comply with MATS.
This 1/1/1995 article about scrubbers says that they «have been used for 25 years,» which suggests that the first scrubbers were installed around 1970:
To meet this goal, plant owners can implement one of or a combination of three main strategies: use lower sulfur coal in their boilers, retire plants without emissions controls, or install emissions control equipment — primarily flue gas desulfurization (FGD) scrubbers.
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