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March 1, 200803.01.2008 | Douglas J. Smith, IEng, Contributing Editor
In recent years, Sargent & Lundy has evaluated many potential sites for new coal-fueled generation. Some of the sites studied were lands adjacent to existing power plants (brownfield sites); others were undeveloped greenfield sites. The numerous... 03.01.2008 | Dr. Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief
Three of the best-kept secrets in the U.S. today have nothing to do with national security in the traditional sense. They all involve costs: the cost of fulfilling campaign promises, a valid estimate of the cost of carbon control legislation (S. 2191)... 03.01.2008 | Dr. Robert Peltier, PE
The Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington-based advocacy group, announced in March that CO 2 emissions from U.S. power plants increased 2.9% last year over 2006 levels. The group used 2006 and 2007 CO 2 emissions data from the U.S. EPA and the... 03.01.2008 | Anthony Mancino and Gail Reitenbach, PhD
Everyone in the power generation business knows that coal will continue to be a necessary fuel source for the foreseeable future. Many of those same people are beginning to understand that, politics aside, coal plant operations in the foreseeable future... 03.01.2008 | Chris Holly (cholly@accessintel.com) is a reporter for COAL POWER’s sister publication, The Energy Daily
Most folks probably don’t think that power plants burning coal and ethanol — the latter touted as a having a smaller carbon footprint — have much in common. But at least one ethanol plant — Blue Flint Ethanol in Underwood, N.D. —... 03.01.2008 | Dr. Helmut Oberrisser is with Sandvik Mining and Construction (www.miningandconstruction.sandvi
An optimal coal pile design takes into account the site-specific (and often conflicting) needs of a new power plant early in its design — rather than using whatever land is available after the plant layout has been finalized. Determining site... |
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