Clean Coal Power Initiative

The Clean Coal Power Initiative would spend 2 billion over the next 10 years for these high-potential, but still high-risk, technologies. Targets are an efficiency greater than 52% with emissions of NOx = 0.06, lb/million Btu and S02 = 0.06 lb/million Btu and a cost of less than 1,000/kW. 

If clean coal technology works well enough to be implemented widely in industry, it could have a huge impact on the environment. According to the DOE, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, a plan presented by President George W. Bush in 2001, will help cut sulfur, nitrogen, and mercury pollutants from power plants by nearly 70% by the year 2018. ... 

Clean Coal Technology 8r The Presidents Clean Coal Power Initiative. US. Department of Energy Web site. Available online. URL http //www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/ cleancoal/. 

In 2003 WMPI was selected for award negations for commercial coal-based coproduction applications under Round I of the DOE CCPI (clean coal power initiative) solicitation. Its work scope is to construct and operate a commercial CTL plant as designed under the WMPI EECP project mentioned above. 

Coal preparation has been an Important segment of the coal Industry In the United States for approximately one hundred years. Its Initial use was In the production of high quality coal used In the manufacture of coke. By 1965 approximately 95% of metallurgical grade coal was processed through a coal preparation plant. The use of cleaned coal as a fuel for electric power generation and as an Industrial boiler fuel Is relatively recent. Studies conducted for the U. S. Department of Energy ( 1) and the... 

Natural gas is the fuel of choice wherever it is available because of its clean burning and its competitive pricing as seen in Figure 1-30. Prices for Uranium, the fuel of nuclear power stations, and coal, the fuel of the steam power plants, have been stable over the years and have been the lowest. Environmental, safety concerns, high initial cost, and the long time from planning to production has hurt the nuclear and steam power industries. Whenever oil or natural gas is the fuel of choice, gas turbines and combined cycle plants are the power plant of choice as they convert the fuel into electricity very... 

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