How can traditional coal-fired power plants adapt to the fluctuating nature of renewable energy? A new pre-gasification ...

Coal plant operators have reasonably accurate knowledge of how much coal they are burning in any individual boiler, either by testing to determine the exact unit heat rate, or measuring the rate at ...

June 4, 2003 — A new gasifier invention application has just been published at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This low-temperature (1600F) pressurized two-stage gasification process, ...

Most of today’s operating coal plants began service at least a generation ago and were designed to burn eastern bituminous coal. A switch to Powder River Basin coal can stress those plants’ boiler ...

The pilot-scale testing was performed at a test bed installed at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The test was conducted in a scaled-down version of Siemens’ current pulverized coal ...

The alchemy of burning any solid fuel-including coal-requires mixing fuel and air in just the right proportion at just the right time. Get the recipe wrong, and reduced efficiency and load rating will ...