Precombustion control of air toxics

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:560543

Akers, D J; Harrison, C ^[1]; Nowak, M ^[2]; Toole-O`Neil, B ^[3]

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1. CQ Inc., Homer City, PA (United States)
2. Dept. of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
3. Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA (United States)

If regulation of hazardous air pollutant emissions from utility boilers occurs in the next few years, the least-cost, lowest-risk control method for many utilities is likely to be some form of coal cleaning. Approximately 75 percent of coal mined east of the Mississippi River is already cleaned before it is used by the electric utility industry. Current methods of coal cleaning reduce ash and sulfur content by removing ash-forming and sulfur-bearing minerals; these same methods have the capability to remove large amounts of most of the 14 elements named as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in Title III of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act.

• OSTI ID: 560543
• Report Number(s): CONF-961232--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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