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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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CO2 capture has to be addressed now
Capturing CO2 and sequestering it underground is an attractive longer term option for greenhouse gas reduction, but decisions regarding it cannot be postponed. Many of the decisions which power plants are making today will impact their CO2 capture costs. Therefore, capture has to be considered an urgent subject for analysis. These are the conclusions reached by McIlvaine in its just published, ...
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CONSOL Energy Earns Virginia Reclamation Award
CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX) was awarded the 2012 Best Completed Deep Mine Award from the Virginia Division of Mined Land Reclamation and the Virginia Mining Association (VMA) for reclamation of its Consolidation Coal Company Vandyke mine in Tazewell County, Va. The award, presented during the VMA's 42nd annual meeting and awards banquet in Norton, Va., in late March recognizes CONSOL Energy for ...
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EIA launches Coal Data Browser to provide detailed information on U.S. coal sector
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) launched today an interactive, online Coal Data Browser (www.eia.gov/coal/data/browser) that brings together in a single tool comprehensive government information, statistics, and visualizations about the U.S. coal sector. The Coal Data Browser gives users easy access to a vast array of coal information from EIA's electricity and coal surveys. The ...
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Double Girder Overhead Crane - Australia
Electric Double Girder Overhead Crane - Mining Industry - Australia Delivery: 2011 Country: Australia Project Name: Australian mining project Industry: Mining Crane Name: Electric Double Girder Bridge Crane Quantity: 1 set Double girder bridge crane Model: QD32 / 5t-23.5m Double girder bridge crane Span: 23.5 m Electric double girder overhead crane Lifting Height: 24 m Electric double girder ...
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New appointments announced to DECC
Ministers today approved the appointment of Robert Spedding to the Coal Authority, and announced the selection of the first Electricity Market Reform Panel of Technical Experts. The panel will provide independent scrutiny of the analysis which will inform the Government’s first Electricity Market Reform Delivery Plan. Secretary of State Edward Davey said: “The experts that we have ...
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New coal plants would create nearly 18 million tons of waste annually
Proposed coal plants across the United States would produce nearly 18 million tons of dangerous waste, including toxic metals, each year. Nearly 130 million tons of coal waste from existing plants is being produced annually, most of which is disposed of in largely unregulated landfills, ponds and other locations, posing serious public health and environmental risks. According to a new analysis by ...
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Pakistan assured over transmission grid and energy loss project
In June this year, the Chinese government issued a work plan on energy conservation and pollutant discharge reduction, which pledged the country would reduce its discharge of sulfur dioxide from 25.49 million tons in 2005 to 22.95 million tons in 2010, and the COD from 14.14 million tons to 12.73 million tons. Zhou attributed the current decrease in the two major pollutants mainly to the ...
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Metso to supply a lime calcining system to Martin Marietta in the USA
Metso Corporation's press release on February 28, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. local time Metso will supply a 900 TPD (tons per day) lime calcining system to Martin Marietta Magnesia Specialties in Ohio, the USA. The delivery will be completed before the end of 2011. The value of the order is approximately EUR 11 million and it was included in Mining and Construction Technology's Q4 2010 orders ...
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Speech by Charles Hendry at McCloskey`s Coal UK Conference
The UK coal community has seen many changes since that first Coal UK conference. Back then, in 1992, our focus was on privatisation of the electricity supply sector and the preparations for privatisation of the British Coal Corporation, both of which were game-changers for this country. Let me remind you of some statistics: In 1992, UK coal production was 91.1 million tonnes, from 152 ...
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Coal Fired Steam Generation Unit Asset Sale by Universal Wrecking
Universal Wrecking Corp has been awarded the dismantling and asset recovery project of a coal fired steam generation unit which is located 6 miles west of Pampa, Texas. A partial list of the equipment for sale includes: (2) 80MW coal fired boileris including the structure, piping and ancillaryequipment; Boiler Feed Water System including building and tanks; Deaerator equipment and structure; ...
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CSP Technologies Compete With PV
The Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) market will rise again in 2012 and in the next five years, according to new research from SBI Energy. Emerging from an enforced hiatus by PV solar technologies, the global capacity of utility-scale CSP was 2 GW at the close of 2011 with approximately another 2500 to 3500 MW becoming operational in 2012. SBI Energy estimates the cost of the installed base of ...
By SBI Reports
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Colloidal Coal Water Fuel by Nanotechnology for power generation
Coal is still the dominant fuel used for power generation due to its low cost and abundant availability despite its emission problems and global warming issues. Companies around the world are trying to improve the efficiency of coal fired power plants and reduce emissions by various methods. The idea is to prepare an ultra clean coal with very low ash content in the form of coal-water slurry that ...
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China and Europe join forces on `clean coal`
A joint initiative between China and Europe has paved the way for the development of efficient and low-carbon energy systems using coal. The researchers believe that international collaboration - and in particular an initiative called cooperation action with China (under the COACH project) - will speed up the development of polygeneration plants. These plants produce other coal-based fuels at ...
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