Supplemental report to Congress on Emerging Clean Coal Technologies

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5344835

On May 1, 1985, the Secretary of Energy submitted a Report to Congress on Emerging Clean Coal Technologies which in part assessed the usefulness of the emerging coal technologies under development by DOE. On May 8, 1985 in testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications, the Department of Energy committed to a follow-on report aimed at further characterizing these emerging clean coal technologies. This report has been prepared in response to that commitment. The characterizations consist of an evaluation of the technologies against four measures including environmental performance, technical maturity, applicability, and cost effectiveness. The technology categories addressed in this report are those encompassed by the previous Report to Congress. In some technology categories, more than one individual technology is assessed. In turn, each technology may encompass several different processes. In addition, most of the technologies are, in fact, subsystems in various large energy systems. Generally, the clean coal technologies can be divided into three broad groups according to primary function: fuel production, energy production, and environmental emissions reduction. Fuel production technologies convert coal into a more useful form such as fuel gas, hydrocarbon liquids, or coal-water mixtures. Energy production technologies convert coal into electric power and/or steam for industrial process use. Environmental emission-reducing technologies mitigate the emissions of SO/sub x/, NO/sub x/, and particulate emissions caused by, for example, coal burning in a boiler. The descriptions and ratings of technologies in this report against various appropriate measures will allow the reader to gain a sense for the relative performance of each technology for each evaluation measure.

• Research Organization: Engineering and Economics Research, Inc., Vienna, VA (USA); Hagler, Bailly and Co., Washington, DC (USA); PEI Associates, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (USA); Spaite (Paul W.) Co., Cincinnati, OH (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AK21-85MC22121
• OSTI ID: 5344835
• Report Number(s): DOE/MC/22121-1; ON: DE85018356
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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