DOE/EA-1498: Environmental Assessment for the Advanced Coal Utilization Byproduct Beneficiation Processing Plant Ghent Power Station, Carroll County, Kentucky (January 2005)
The Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) is a cost-shared partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and industry to demonstrate advanced coal-based power generation technologies. Through the CCPI, candidate technologies are demonstrated at commercial-scale facilities to foster widespread application. The goals of the program are to realize environmental and economic benefits through DOE and industry partnerships, as well as to move promising, yet commercially risky, advanced coal energy systems to market. DOE proposes to provide funding, through a cooperative agreement with the University of Kentucky Research Foundation (UKRF), Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), for the design, construction, and operation of an advanced coal ash beneficiation processing plant at Kentucky Utilities (KU) Ghent Power Station in Carroll County, Kentucky. The proposed project would contribute to CCPI program goals by demonstrating a means to reduce the net costs of particulate control technologies through the conversion of ash into salable products. DOE would provide $4,492,008, approximately 50 percent of total project cost. The proposed demonstration plant would process 200,000 tons per year of fly ash generated at the Ghent Power Station into: 156,000 tons per year of pozzolan for concrete; 16,000 tons per year of high-quality block sand; 16,000 tons per year of graded fill sand; 1,500 tons per year of high-quality polymer filler; and 8,000 tons of carbon fuel. Because the proposed project would utilize an existing waste to produce concrete and masonry materials, which could replace Portland cement, overall CO2 emissions resulting from concrete manufacturing could be reduced. Furthermore, the need for additional storage areas for fly ash would be reduced. The findings of this Environmental are that no significant impacts to human health and safety or the environment from construction and operation of the proposed demonstration plant are anticipated. Because the project would be constructed within the confines of an inactive ash impoundment at the Ghent Power Station, no impacts to unspoiled areas would occur. Further significant degradation of soils and groundwater is unlikely. Cultural resource investigations have been conducted and conclude that no culturally or historically important features would be affected. Impacts to ecological resources, surface water resources, and land use would be insignificant. Construction and operation of the proposed project would not be expected to impact any federal- or state-listed threatened or endangered species. Increases in truck traffic over existing traffic conditions would be small. Only minor increases in noise and dust would be expected in the area near the project.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Lab., Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of NEPA Policy and Assistance (EH-42) (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 840939
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/EA-1498; TRN: US200513%%205
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Jan 2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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