Sentences with phrase «remove sulfur dioxide»

In 1977, the government made its first stab at confronting the issue, recommending that all new coal - fired plants have scrubbers to remove sulfur dioxide from their emissions.
The image, based on her work and that of PNNL's H. Todd Schaef, depicts the potential of carbonate minerals to remove sulfur dioxide, a troubling compound in the quest for clean energy.
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.
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.

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Cap and trade was first used to remove lead from gasoline and then worked into amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990 to force power plants to cut back on sulfur dioxide, one of the chemicals that produce acid rain.
would let a plant meet clean air act goals without scrubbers or other pollution control equipment,...» A coal flue scrubber removes 90 percent of the sulfur dioxide emissions from the burning of coal.
The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty to regulate «Greenhouse Gases» only: - Carbon dioxide (CO2)- Methane (CH4)- Nitrous oxide (N2O)(Laughing Gas, Nitrous, NOS)- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)- Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) Car Exhaust consists of: Harmless: - Carbon dioxide (CO2)- Nitrogen (N2)- Water vapor (H2O) Some Pollutants: - Carbon monoxide (CO) * - Hydrocarbons or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) * - Nitric oxide (NO) * - Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) * - Particulate matter (PM - 10) * - Sulfur dioxide (SO2) * * Your car's catalytic converter removes about 95 % of these pollutants.
The stack gas cleanup removes virtually all of the sulfur dioxide and the nitrous oxide, the real pollutants.
In the gasification process hard coal, lignite and other substances such as biomass, petcoke and refinery residues will be converted to syngas, and environmental pollutants such as sulfur and carbon dioxide subsequently removed.
A unique reusable organic liquid developed at PNNL can remove and store harmful gases from power plant emissions, including sulfur dioxide, a primary cause of acid rain.
The stack gas cleanup removes virtually all of the sulfur dioxide and the nitrous oxide, the real...
Collectively, a total of 2,011 megawatts (MW) of coal - fired power will retire as part of the settlement, removing almost 12 million tons of climate - disrupting carbon pollution and nearly 84,000 tons of sulfur dioxide pollution that the three coal - fired power plants spew into the air each year.
The failure to actually reduce global emissions has meant that all possibilities are now on the table, including some that sound like premises from a science - fiction novel: Humans could sequester carbon dioxide by removing it from the air through technologies that mimic trees, or we could spray water droplets in the lower atmosphere to reflect light and heat back to space, or we could seed sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere to do the same.
Use kerosene heaters only in well - ventilated areas to remove carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide from combustion.
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