Steam generating equipment is
used by power plants to convert heat into steam.
The facilities make large gas turbines and turbine generator sets
used by power plants.
The thermal energy not
used by the power plant is removed by cooling water.
Not exact matches
Beyond
using this clean electricity to
power homes, offices and manufacturing
plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road
by 2020.
The trucks were
used to evacuate people during the Boston Marathon bombings, are stationed at nuclear
power plants around the world, and are
used by the State Department in hostile regions.
To
use MOX fuel rods, civilian
power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing
by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Alberta is boosting its
use of renewable energy, closing
power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions
by 50 percent.
Though green - energy organizations are facing hurdles in getting access to capital markets, wind
plant or solar
power builders, who are producing green energy, are highly benefitted with enormous profit rates
by the
use of this efficient trading platform.
It
used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big
power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be
used by relatively dumb appliances.
If electricity
use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of
power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear
power plants —
by this time possibly breeder or fusion
plants.
Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production
plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to
power its boilers and generate electricity for its own
use and to sell back to the provincial grid.
Results achieved over hundreds of
plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the
plants installed
by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and
using it to
power boilers and electricity generators.
Our manufacturing site is mainly
powered by a hydroelectric
plant and they do not
use the same toxic chemicals that are often
used as a wash overseas.
In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to
use power generated
by nuclear
plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.
Regulations would also be adopted at the end of 2020 that would end the
use of coal in
power plants by 2020, something first called for
by Cuomo last year.
Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority
use of clean and renewable
power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning
power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy
by 2030.
He will continue to deny climate change caused
by human activity; and will
use his committee position to attack the EPA move to cut
power plant carbon emissions.
«You know, neighborhoods disrupted and different
power plants all throughout the state — I think that the smart way of providing energy and expanding energy is
by using what you have.»
Close Indian Point
power plant by 2021 - Unit 2 Reactor to close April 2020 and Unit 3 Reactor April 2021 - End
use of a
plant with numerous safety violations - «Current Indian Point Employees will be Offered relocation and opportunities with other
plants and utilities within the state; training in renewable technologies» - «Entergy will provide $ 15 million in funding for environmental and community benefits» - Cuomo is working on replacement resources so that there can be no cost increases in electricity after Indian Point closes More
The
plant generates 25 percent of the
power used by New York City, but opponents say there are serious safety concerns associated with Indian Point and its 40 - year - old technology.
New York lawmakers should
use all tools available to fight this issue head on through legislation, such as S. 4417, introduced
by Senator Tony Avella, which would direct the state PSC to repeal any electric rate increase «where such increase is a subsidy to upstate nuclear
power plants.»
Using a supercritical fluid, these power plants can cut their energy storage costs up to 40 percent by using a cheaper, simpler, more reliable de
Using a supercritical fluid, these
power plants can cut their energy storage costs up to 40 percent
by using a cheaper, simpler, more reliable de
using a cheaper, simpler, more reliable design.
«A specific difference is that in the near future, the United States can replace its traditional coal [
use]
by power generation
plants using gas, but China can not.
The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the
use of defoliants and herbicides
by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear
power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.
Researchers have shown that observations
by Earth - orbiting instruments can be
used to estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from individual
power plants.
Purdue University physicists are part of an international group
using spinach to study the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the process
by which
plants convert the sun's energy into carbohydrates
used to
power cellular processes.
It also assumes that 45 new nuclear
power plants could be built
by 2030,
using existing reactor sites, adding 64 gigawatts of new capacity.
Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem
by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced
by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a
power plant dubbed GreenGen.
The new biofuel product made
by the BRIL researchers produces a product that has less alkali and alkaline earth metals, allowing them to be
used at
power plants.
At Loy Yang
Power Station in Victoria, a pilot plant run by CSIRO will capture 1,000 metric tons of CO2 a year; the Australian research organization has collaborated with China's Huaneng Group to use an amine scrubber to capture CO2 from a co-generation power plant in Beijing and then sel
Power Station in Victoria, a pilot
plant run
by CSIRO will capture 1,000 metric tons of CO2 a year; the Australian research organization has collaborated with China's Huaneng Group to
use an amine scrubber to capture CO2 from a co-generation
power plant in Beijing and then sel
power plant in Beijing and then sell it.
As a first step, they've quarantined the lagoon, owned
by a
power plant and
used as for boating, to prevent tiny fragments of C. taxifolia from being spread
by boat anchors.
When hooked up to the average 500 - megawatt natural - gas or coal
power plant, the vortex engine could produce an extra 200 megawatts of energy just
by putting the excess heat to
use.
The state hosts vast photovoltaic arrays in the desert as well as the nation's first commercial
power plant with the technology to
use sunshine at night —
by storing daytime heat in molten salts.
Together the two
plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year
by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to
power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.
After all, the spent fuel pools that may have been exposed
by the
power plant explosions contain more than 200 metric tons of
used uranium fuel rods that have been cooling for weeks, months or even years — and smoke or steam continues to billow from the exposed spent fuel pool of reactor No. 3.
On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions
by 15 percent below 2005 levels
by 2020
using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from
power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.
Coal -
powered synthetic natural gas
plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas
plants, and
use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study
by Duke University researchers.
The analysis
by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced
by the new
plants is
used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired
power.
The
plant is scheduled to go online
by 2011; it will process 1,500 tons of garbage a day, sending 60 megawatts of electricity to the
power grid (after
using some to
power itself).
By reducing the amount of energy
used, efficiency improvements also reduce the amount of energy that must be generated and, therefore, the need for new
power plants.
Findings show carbon pollution from
power plants can be cut cost - effectively
by using wind, solar and natural gas
Germany is poised to
use it as a substitute for the nuclear
plants it will shut down
by 2022 (see «Germany will
use coal and gas to plug nuclear
power gap»).
To construct the estimates, the researchers
used data on locomotive diesel consumption, pipeline pumping station electricity consumption, locomotive and
power plant emission factors and the AP2 integrated assessment model, which maps county level emissions to costs for counties affected
by the emissions.
The DemoSNG pilot
plant constructed
by the KIT will be
used in Sweden for the reliable and efficient production of methane from biomass - based carbon dioxide and variable amounts of hydrogen from green
power.
Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis
powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are
used by plants to grow.
Studies have yielded different results
by focusing on
power plants with different characteristics and
using different definitions of what it means to be «better» for climate.
If a test
using a Tennessee Valley Authority
power plant works, Bayless hopes to have a full - scale bioreactor, with 1.25 million square meters of algae screens handling the output of a 10 - megawatt
power plant, running
by 2010.
«Due to advanced technology
used at U.S. - based coal burning
power plants, mandated
by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the
plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.
Instead of sequestering carbon dioxide after it is emitted
by cars and
power plants, grab it from the air and reduce it to hydrocarbon fuels for us to
use.
But coal provides more than half of the electricity
used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired
power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.