05.01.2007 | Kennedy Maize
It’s déjà synfuels all over again. With crude oil prices seemingly interminably pegged at over $60 a barrel, the old, beguiling notion of turning coal into liquid fuel — a task accomplished by the Nazis in the 1940s and the South...
05.01.2007 | Randy Rahm is executive director of the PRB Coal Users’ Group. He can be reached at r.rahm@ethanexenergy.com.
Money is always spent with the best intentions. We look for the best deal, often identifying it by the lowest price. Sometimes, our choice works out and we save money and get a great product. When it doesn’t work out, however, we find ourselves spending...
05.01.2007 | Douglas J. Smith, IEng
During 2005, about 150 million tons of coal were transported to power plants by hopper barges plying U.S. inland waterways. With coal-fired plants expected to continue producing 50% of America’s electricity, coal barge traffic is not likely to fall off...
05.01.2007 | Gerald Pargac is performance manager of LCRA’s Fayette Power Project. He can be reached at gerald.pargac@lcra.org. Doug Hart is manager, firing
The Fayette Power Project (FPP, aka the Sam K. Seymour Power Station) is a three-unit, coal-fired generating plant sited near La Grange, Texas (Figure 1). Units 1 and 2, each with a nominal rating of 600 MW, are co-owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority...
05.01.2007 | C.A. Penterson is manager of fuel equipment design for Riley Power Inc. He can be reached at cpenterson@babcockpower.com. D.E. Dorman and B. Courteman
Reducing NOx emissions from large utility coal-fired boilers has been a primary focus of the U.S. power generation industry since passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent legislation. By the early 1990s, nearly all such boilers had installed some form...
05.01.2007 | Dr. Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief
Sylvester Stallone, as Rocky Balboa, staged another magical comeback earlier this year — in the ring and at the box office. Just when you think Rocky is down and out for good, the sixth release of the Rocky franchise just may be the best of the lot...
05.01.2007
Ninety years ago America was at war, and producers of coal (principally anthracite) were struggling to meet demand. It’s hard now to conceive of coal as the universal fuel, but there was a time when it was used in the U.S. to heat homes, schools, and...
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