Sentences with phrase «where coal combustion»

Nevertheless, acid rain remains a serious and even increasing issue in many areas — especially in Russia and China, where coal combustion without the use of «scrubbers» remains common.

Not exact matches

The Northwestern development could lead to new thermoelectric devices with potential applications in the automobile industry, glass - and brick - making factories, refineries, coal - and gas - fired power plants, and places where large combustion engines operate continuously (such as in large ships and tankers).

It's good old fashioned black carbon soot — a visible pollutant with measurable effects on human health both in poor places, where it comes from cooking or heating using coal, firewood or dung, and rich countries, where it is produced mainly through the combustion of diesel and similar fuels and from some industries.

In these pulverised coal combustion (PCC) systems, the powdered coal is blown into the combustion chamber of a boiler where it is burnt at high temperature (see diagram).

However, in India and China a lot of coal and biomass is burned in domestic settings where inefficient low - temperature combustion and a lack of pollution controls mean that the mix of emissions is much more complicated — carbon dioxide, of course, but also large amounts of carbon monoxide, black carbon and sulphates.