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Air Products Collaborates with Huazhong University of Science and Technology to Drive Clean Energy with Focus on Advanced Combustion Technology
Air Products (NYSE: APD), a leading global industrial gases and performance materials supplier, today announced it has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and a joint research and development (R&D) agreement with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China on clean energy. The collaboration between Air Products and the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion ...
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Headwaters Incorporated Completes the Sale of All Remaining Coal Cleaning Plants
Headwaters Incorporated (NYSE: HW), a building products company dedicated to improving lives through innovative advancements in construction materials, today announced that it completed the sale of its remaining eight coal cleaning facilities to Bowie Refined Coal, LLC and its affiliates (“BRC”) effective January 16, 2013. Proceeds from the sale include ...
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Switching a City from Natural Gas to Hydrogen
DNV GL points out in a recent article that while burning natural gas emits about half the carbon of an equivalent amount of oil or coal, combusting hydrogen (H2) gas emits none at point of use. Steam-methane reforming (SMR) is the main process used to separate natural gas, which is mostly methane, to produce H2 and carbon dioxide (CO2). Hydrogen can then be used as a lower-carbon fuel, while ...
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Headwaters Incorporated Organizes Business Unit Focussed on its “HCAT” Technology
SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH – Headwaters Incorporated (NYSE: HW) today announced the creation of Headwaters Heavy Oil, a business unit devoted to the deployment of what the Company believes is a breakthrough technology for improving the efficiency of refining heavy petroleum feedstocks. “The completion of the commercial scale run at a European refinery late last year was a turning point for our heavy oil ...
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Market Research Predicts Clean Coal Technologies at $85 Billion by 2020
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Clean Coal Technologies Markets and Trends Worldwide, 2nd Edition" to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/SBI-v775/Clean-Coal-Technologies-Trends-Worldwide-6447642/ Coal is expected to continue to be a dominant fuel in power generation due to its low cost and ...
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EPA seeks small business participation on wastewater discharge rule for steam electric power plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses to nominate representatives to participate in a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel. This panel will focus on the agency’s development of a proposed rulemaking to strengthen and revise wastewater discharge regulations for steam electric power generating plants. Small business’ participation can help ...
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Biomass-burning `behind Asian brown clouds`
Burning biomass is the main cause of the dense "brown clouds" that plague South Asia each winter, and both biomass and fossil fuel burning should be targeted to combat climate change and improve air quality. These are the conclusions of a study published today (23 January) in Science. The study, conducted at two sites in South Asia, attempted to find the main source of the carbon soot particles ...
By SciDev.Net
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Carbolite gero CAF G5: a new generation of ash fusibility furnaces
When coal is combusted in the furnace of a power plant a powder-shaped residue or a glassy slag (clinker) forms and must be removed. Large coal furnaces suffer from clinker build-up and therefore expensive maintenance due to closure for removal of clinker. If the fusibility characteristics are known, control of temperature can avoid clinker formation. Ash fusibility testing is designed to ...
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Envirogen and Suez Environnement Create Collaborative Alliance to Deliver Comprehensive, Cost-Effective Water & Wastewater Solutions to the Power Industry
Envirogen Technologies, Inc. announced that it has entered into a Collaborative Alliance with Suez Environnement and will work with the environmental technology leader to deliver comprehensive, cost-effective water and wastewater treatment solutions to the power industry in North America. Effective immediately, the two companies will collaborate exclusively to pursue and execute major ...
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B&W Awarded $2.8 Million in DOE Funding for Carbon Capture Research
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC) announced today that its Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) subsidiary has been selected to receive $2.8 million in financial assistance funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to study chemical formulations to improve the performance of its Regenerable Solvent Absorption ...
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EIA: U.S. power sector carbon dioxide emissions fall below transportation sector emissions
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration “Today in Energy” report finds that U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the transportation sector reached 1,893 million metric tons (MMmt) from October 2015 through September 2016, exceeding electric power sector CO2 emissions of 1,803 MMmt over the same time period. On a 12-month rolling total basis, electric power sector CO2 ...
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IEA urges the Czech Republic to set conditions to boost energy investments
The International Energy Agency praised the Czech Republic for supporting the development of robust natural gas and electricity infrastructure in its latest review of Czech energy policies. The country has the highest level of electricity interconnection capacity within Central Europe and is equally well connected to neighbouring natural gas markets. Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director, ...
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Webinar now available on demand - Strengthening plant safety in coal and biomass handling, storage, milling and transportation
In this webinar, AMETEK Land introduces early detection techniques of spontaneous combustion in coal and biomass handling, storage, milling and transportation. Attendees will learn about issues involved and how AMETEK Land can help producers and users to operate their sites more safely and effectively. Risks of unwanted combustion – potentially causing injury, damage and downtime – ...
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New York governor encourages unique clean coal plant
New York Governor David Paterson Tuesday announced that the state would offer up to US$6 million in financial support for construction of a coal-fired power demonstration plant in Jamestown that will be the first of its kind in the world. The Jamestown coal plant would burn coal in pure oxygen instead of air. This process leaves water and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, which can be ...
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Government decides not to increase incinerator bottom ash tax
The Treasury is dropping its proposals to increase the rate of landfill tax paid on incinerator bottom ash. Last year (April 2009), the Treasury launched a consultation entitled Modernising Landfill Tax Legislation and proposed to tax incinerator bottom ash at the higher rate for active waste, which is currently £48 per tonne, as opposed to the lower rate for inactive waste which is currently ...
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Coal-Water Fuel as an ecological alternative to Heating Oil
What is “coal-water fuel” and how it can helps? Coal-water fuel (CWSF or CWS or CWF) is a fuel which consists of fine dispersed coal particles, water and plasticizing agent. This type of fuel is widely used as an alternative to gas and black oil on different heat generating facilities. The operational economy is the main of advantages of the coal-water fuel. CW fuel has almost ...
By GlobeCore PC
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IEA urges Poland to clean up its energy sector while balancing energy security, environment and affordability requirements
Poland's new energy strategy should put the country on a pathway towards a cleaner energy system while strengthening energy security, the International Energy Agency said in its latest review of the country's energy policies. The forthcoming energy strategy is likely to prioritise long-term energy security, placing a strong emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution, ...
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Carbon management for power plants 2011
As uncertainty grows around EPA and state-level regulation surrounding carbon emissions from power plants, finding strategies and technologies for complying with these regulations is becoming a top priority for power plant operators. Because of this, the Chief Environmental Officers from America's largest power generation companies including Southern Company, Dominion Resources and Constellation ...
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Can capturing carbon become a reality?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is both hailed as a “silver bullet” for the coal industry, and reviled as a pipe dream. The reality is that the US needs CCS, and a comprehensive policy framework for rapid development and deployment. Undoubtedly, CCS has many detractors. Many are calling for investment in wind, solar and other renewable energies rather than in capture technologies. Renewable ...
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Partnership Makes Biofuel Accessible to Everyone
Of all resources used for global energy consumption, 19.3 percent is renewable energy, of which almost three-quarters is generated from biomass, according to the Renewable Energy Network (REN21). For the production of biocoal, at present woody waste residues are mainly used, among others from the wood-processing industry, sustainable forestry and green maintenance. The use of biocoal reduces ...
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