09.01.2007 | Dr. Robert Peltier, PE
This August, Peabody Energy’s 1,600-MW Prairie State Energy Campus project in Illinois won a major federal appeals court decision, removing the last obstacle to groundbreaking. The six-year regulatory review process ended with an unsuccessful Sierra...
09.01.2007 | Douglas J. Smith, IEng
Lansing Board of Water & Light (LBW&L), which has generated electricity since 1892 and steam since 1919 in mid-Michigan, primarily serves the city of Lansing’s business district and all state government buildings in the downtown area. But one of...
09.01.2007 | Steve Katzberger, PE (steve.m.katzberger@sargentlundy.com) is a technical advisor, and Ajay Jayaprakash is an associate at Sargent & Lundy LLC, a
Since ratification of the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1970, U.S. utilities have made steady efforts to install pollution control equipment to curb power plant stack emissions. The CAA Amendments of 1990 raised concerns at the time about the industry’s...
09.01.2007 | Kennedy Maize
Every step forward in underground U.S. mine safety in the 20th and 21st centuries has been on the backs of mangled and dead coal miners. That grisly observation is unassailable. Following the August tragedy at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah that killed six...
09.01.2007 | Charles E. Miller (charles.miller@netl.doe.gov) is a project manager in NETL’s Environment & Climate Division (ECD). Thomas J. Feeley, III (
In Part I of this two-part report ( COAL POWER, July/August 2007, p. 22), we introduced the integrated R&D effort by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) to improve understanding of the mechanisms of...
09.01.2007 | Charles Price (cprice@charah.com) is president and CEO of Charah Inc.
Burning Powder River Basin (PRB) coal can be a curse or a blessing, depending on your attention to the details of plant design and operations. One disadvantage of PRB coal combustion is the abundance of bottom ash and flyash generated as a by-product...
09.01.2007 | Douglas J. Smith, IEng
Every day, while driving to his job at PacifiCorp Energy’s Dave Johnston plant near Glenrock, Wyoming, Cole Harris used to wonder as he neared the station how opaque Unit 3’s stack emissions would look. Until a few years ago, Unit 3 (Figure 3) had...
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