Clean Coal Engineering Technology

Clean Coal Engineering Technology, Second Edition, provides significant information on the major power generation technologies that aim to utilize coal more efficiently and with less of an environmental impact. With increased coal combustion come heightened concerns about coal’s impacts on human health and climate change, so the book addresses the reduction of both carbon footprints and emissions of pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and mercury.

Part 1 of the book provides an essential grounding in the history of coal use, alongside coal chemical and physical characteristics, worldwide distribution and health and environmental impacts. Part 2 then introduces the fundamentals of the major coal utilization technologies and examines the anatomy of a coal-fired power plant, before going on to provide an overview of clean coal technologies for advanced power generation. There follows a group of chapters on emissions and carbon management, which have been extensively enlarged and updated for the second edition, reflecting the ever-increasing importance of this area. The final section of the book focuses on clean coal technology programs around the world and the future role of coal in the energy mix.

This fully revised and selectively expanded new edition is a valuable resource for professional and aspiring power, environmental, chemical and mechanical engineers seeking an authoritative and thorough one-volume overview of the latest advances in cleaner power production from coal.

• A thorough, yet readable, one-volume guide to advanced power generation technologies for cleaner electricity production from coal
• New edition retains the essential background information on the coal characteristics and the fundamentals of coal-fired power generation, yet also provides extensively expanded and updated coverage of technologies for the reduction of pollutants including particulate matter, sulfur oxides, and mercury
• Major emphasis on carbon capture methods and storage and emerging technologies for reduction of carbon footprint, alongside a discussion of coal’s future in the energy mix