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Oversight hearings: coal combustion R. D. and D. for utility power-plants and industrial uses. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration (Fossil Fuels) of the Committee on Science and Technology, U. S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session. Volume II

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OSTI ID:7345840
Candidate systems for energy conversion alternatives include advanced steam, open- or closed-cycle gas turbines, open- or closed-cycle Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), liquid-metal MHD, supercritical CO2, liquid-metal Rankine cycle, fuel cells, and combined cycle (gas turbine and steam). Hearings to examine new and improved alternatives for the use of coal combustion in electric power plants and industry stressed the importance of shifting consumption of oil and natural gas to coal. ERDA witnesses discussed the ''Energy Conversion Alternatives Study'' and current efforts. The history of coal conversion was reviewed, and the technology involved was described. Programs of research and development involve a number of Federal agencies and private corporations. Priorities for developing coal-fired power plants emphasize stack gas clean up, atmospheric fluidized-bed combustion, coupled low-Btu gasification, coal gasification combined cycle, and pressurized fluidized bed combined cycle. (DCK)
Research Organization:
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration (Fossil Fuels), Washington, DC
OSTI ID:
7345840
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
014000 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Combustion
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Development
Demonstration
& Commercialization
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30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION
300101 -- MHD Generators-- Design & Development
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CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL
COAL-FIRED MHD GENERATORS
COMBINED CYCLES
COMBUSTION
CONVERSION
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ENERGY CONVERSION
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FOSSIL FUELS
FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS
FUEL CELLS
FUELS
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
HEARINGS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
LEGISLATION
MHD GENERATORS
MHD POWER PLANTS
OXIDATION
POWER PLANTS
RANKINE CYCLE
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
STEAM TURBINES
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY