engleski

The Future of Energy from Coal

The future of energy from coal is analyzed in this article from the perspective of current limitations concerning environmental protection requirements and especially the task of decreasing carbon dioxide emission as the most important greenhouse gas. Technologies are described which have the perspective to enable further continuous and sustainable use of coal in power production plants with acceptable environmental impacts. Recent results are reviewed, which are reached with improved operating parameters (pressure, temperature) and advanced technologies (carbon capture and storage, circulating fluidised bed combustion, integrated gasification combined cycle). These improvements are compared considering their advantages and disadvantages as well as further research and development works that is needed. Finally, conclusions are proposed, which are derived from the presented discussion.

Coal, CO2 emission, Carbon capture and storage, Circulating fluidised bed combustion

nije evidentirano