Naslov
Scenarios of abandonment of lignite use in the Western Balkans until 2040.

Autori
Koščak Kolin, Sonja ; Brkić, Vladislav ; Dujaković, Ante

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), stručni

Izvornik
X International Conference BIOMEDICINE AND GEOSCIENCES - INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON HUMAN HEALTH / Komatina, Snežana - Beograd : AGES - Association of Geophysicists and Environmentalists of Serbia, 2022, 93-102

ISBN
978-86-80140-12-4

Skup
10th International AGES Conference Biomedicine and geosciences- influence of environment on human health

Mjesto i datum
Kopaonik, Srbija, 05.07.2022. - 09.07.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
CO₂ emissions ; coal-fired power plants

Sažetak
Global and European ambitions to reduce CO 2 emissions with the aim of mitigating climate change are driving the increasing closure of lignite-fired power plants. The reason for their closure is the extremely poor quality of lignite as an energy source, the combustion of which produces significant amounts of CO2 , and harmful and dangerous compounds, which can significantly endanger human health. The harmfulness of lignite is especially visible in the countries of the Western Balkans. In 2020 alone, coal-fired power plants in these countries emitted 2.5 times more SO 2 than all other coal-fired power plants within the European Union. The highest emissions were recorded in Serbia, whose thermal power plants discharged about 333 tons of SO2 in 2020, which is more than 221 thermal power plants in the European Union. The largest single polluter was the thermal power plant in Ugljevik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which discharged about 107 tons of SO2 in 2020, which is more than all coal-fired power plants in Germany. An additional problem is that 90% of such plants in the Western Balkans are those older than 30 years (Kunert et al., 2021). Across Europe, it has been decided to abandon coal use by 2030 for those countries that have not yet done so (Figure 1), and only Germany and the Czech Republic have announced a later year of abandonment. Although the countries of the Western Balkans do not follow this trend and do not show determination to reduce its use, this paper presents possible scenarios for abandoning the use of lignite in relation to maintaining the existing situation and continuing its use.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Rudarstvo, nafta i geološko inženjerstvo

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