Sentences with phrase «sulfur coal»

Acid rain effects would be greatly spread out not concentrated as in the case of the use of high sulfur coal.

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.

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.

It burns inexpensive, low sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin.

Wyoming, with rich reserves of low - sulfur coal near the surface, is the largest coal - producing - state and has the most coal still in the ground at producing mines.

Faced with a choice between installing expensive pollution - control equipment or switching to low - sulfur coal mined outside Illinois, power companies overwhelmingly chose the latter.

Nor did it result in any technology innovation: Cheap scrubbers and low - sulfur coal already existed.

Domestic utilities that have added scrubbers can burn high - sulfur coal while remaining in compliance with recent requirements to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.

They argued that much of the EPA program's apparent success in reducing SO2 emissions from power plants was due to simultaneous railroad deregulation which reduced the cost of delivering low sulfur coal strip - mined in the west.

Illinois Basin coal prices declined just 5 %, partially offset by a 9 % increase in production because of robust demand for the low - cost, high - sulfur coal from the region.

Around that time, we saw the first regulatory battles form in Appalachia, where plants burning local high sulfur coal were contemplating large capital investments to reach compliance by 2015.

This characteristic makes DSI systems more attractive for plants burning lower sulfur coal or for plants that operate infrequently.

NRG now promises to invest $ 1.6 billion at the Tonawanda site by 2013 to install a new gasification plant that will burn low - sulfur coal and reduce harmful emissions.

Instead, the company will use high - sulfur coal — mined mostly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia — and will then pull the sulfur out as part of the CCS process.

Concerning pollution from coal, Lomborg wrote in The Skeptical Environmentalist that «in developed economies, switches to low - sulfur coal, scrubbers, and other air - pollution control devices have today removed the vast part of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions».

«The production of coal in the North Fork exemption will increase the supply of cheap, low - sulfur coal.

But, with acid rain, feasible solutions were already available — namely, scrubbers and low - sulfur coal — that made it relatively straightforward to cap sulfur - dioxide emissions.

«To some degree, it looks like a lot of those reductions would have happened anyway, for simple reasons of economics,» including the declining price of low - sulfur coal, says legal scholar Lesley McAllister.

And the lower - than - expected cost of sulfur dioxide regulation mostly resulted from technological changes that occurred well before the establishment of pollution trading: rail deregulation allowed for the economic shipment of low - sulfur coal, and the development of cheaper scrubbers.

These included replacement of high - sulfur coal with low - sulfur coal, scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, coal cleaning techniques, and development of higher efficiency combustion techniques that allowed more electricity to be generated per ton of emissions.

Even with clean coal — low - sulfur coal and all the new technologies and scrubbers you could put on — you are still going to be seeing emissions.

With a scrubber in place, a plant using high - sulfur coal can reduce its need to buy and surrender SO2 emissions permits by 90 % or more compared to a plant using the same fuel without a scrubber, making Illinois Basin coal much more competitive, especially against Central Appalachia which previously could rely on its low sulfur content as a competitive advantage.

Electric utility scrubber additions to meet proposed EPA regulations limiting sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions underpinned much of the increasing demand for Illinois Basin's low - cost, but high - sulfur coal.

Not to mention that NGLs may be sent up to Alberta to cut bitumen and Illinois high sulfur coal is going to China and others.

It also gives plants the flexibility to use locally - available high - sulfur coal, which helps keep fuel costs low.»

Many companies are over-invested in the out - of - favor, high - sulfur coal of the Appalachian region.

In addition, domestic demand for coal from the Illinois Basin, particularly from Illinois itself, increased as a result of a shift in demand toward the Illinois Basin's low - cost, high - sulfur coal and away from Central Appalachia's high - cost, low - sulfur coal.

Because of the amount of sorbent needed, DSI will likely be implemented most often at plants that are 300 megawatts or less and burn low - sulfur coal.

There is a much easier way to put sulfur into the atmosphere; just take off the scrubbers, start burning more high - sulfur coal, and start building dirty coal plants like mad.

Since the seventies, utilities have been forced to install pollution controls or switch to low sulfur coal to reduce smog and acid rain.

This is consistent with the low sulfur fuel used in road transport in the UK and the high sulfur coal - fired power stations in use.

More recently, it has imposed a tax on high - sulfur coals.

With the Clean Air Act, power plants were required to scrub sulfur out or burn low sulfur coal.

Reductions were accomplished primarily by a fuel switch to readily available, affordable, low - sulfur coal, along with some additional scrubbing.