Dry additives-reduction catalysts for flue waste gases originating from the combustion of solid fuels
Hard coal is the basic energy generating raw material in Poland. In 1990, 60% of electricity and thermal energy was totally obtained from it. It means that 100 million tons of coal were burned. The second position is held by lignite - generating 38% of electricity and heat (67.3 million tons). It is to be underlined that coal combustion is particularly noxious to the environment. The coal composition appreciably influences the volume of pollution emitted in the air. The contents of incombustible mineral parts - ashes - oscillates from 2 to 30%; only 0.02 comes from plants that had once originated coal and cannot be separated in any way. All the rest, viz. the so-called external mineral substance enters the fuel while being won. The most indesirable hard coal ingredient is sulfur whose level depends on coal sorts and its origin. The worse the fuel quality, the more sulfur it contains. In the utilization process of this fuel, its combustible part is burnt: therefore, sulfur dioxide is produced. At the present coal consumption, the SO{sub 2} emission reaches the level of 3.2 million per year. The intensifies the pressure on working out new coal utilization technologies, improving old and developing of pollution limiting methods. Research is also directed towards such an adaptation of technologies in order that individual users may also make use thereof (household furnaces) as their share in the pollution emission is considerable.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 401916
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-52472; CONF-9510377-; ON: DE96013481; TRN: 96:004816-0047
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Krakow conference on low emission sources, Krakow (Poland), 10-12 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]; Related Information: Is Part Of Krakow conference on low emissions sources: Proceedings; Pierce, B.L.; Butcher, T.A. [eds.]; PB: 194 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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