Sentences with phrase «smokestack scrubbers»

• And motivated by a clear desire to protect public health, the United States has long been a global leader in the development and deployment of pollution abatement technologies, from the creation of smokestack scrubbers to the invention of alternatives to ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

Many coal - fired plants use smokestack scrubbers to prevent air pollution.

Some operators are also experimenting with smokestack scrubbers to filter engine emissions.

* 125,000 tons of ash and 193,000 tons of sludge from the smokestack scrubber.

«Waste created by a typical coal plant includes more than 125,000 tons of ash and 193,000 tons of sludge from the smokestack scrubber each year.

Not exact matches

In normal coal - fired plants, nearly all the pollutants go up the smokestack, where some of them are captured from the exhaust by scrubbers.

Adding scrubbers to smokestacks to deal with acid rain, and adding catalytic converters to vehicles, are best understood as inexpensive technical fixes — not wholesale technological revolutions.

There's no scrubber that will remove CO2 from smokestack gas.

AEP also ran ads warning that scrubbers designed to remove life - threatening pollutants from smokestack emissions wouldn't work, but would create large quantities of ``

AEP also ran ads warning that scrubbers designed to remove life - threatening pollutants from smokestack emissions wouldn't work, but would create large quantities of «oozy gook.»