coal handling News
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AMETEK Land - World Cement - Strengthening plant safety
Derek Stuart, Industry Product Manager - Power for AMETEK Land, discusses how the correct selection of equipment and operating criteria can reduce risk in storage silos and mills. Risks of unwanted combustion, potentially causing injury, damage, and downtime, occur everywhere coal is handled, processed, or stored. Safe coal handling practices are designed to ensure that the fuel remains intact ...
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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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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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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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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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Envirogen Introduces New Small-Scale Fluidized Bed Reactor Systems for Treatment of Selenium in Coal Mining Waters
Envirogen Technologies, Inc. (Envirogen) announced today that it has introduced a new small-footprint fluidized bed reactor (FBR) system designed to treat low flows of selenium-laden coal mining waters economically and efficiently. The new systems will allow coal mine operators to treat flows that start at less than 100 gallons per minute (gpm) to lower than 5 micrograms per liter selenium at ...
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