Clean Coal Engineering Technology / Edition 2

by Bruce G. Miller

Overview

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 environmental impact. With increased coal combustion comes 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 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 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. Next, users will find a group of chapters on emissions and carbon management that have been extensively enlarged and updated for the second edition, thus 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 professionals, including environmental, chemical, and mechanical engineers who seek an authoritative and thorough one-volume overview of the latest advances in cleaner power production from coal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128113653
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/20/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	856
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mr. Miller (B.S. and M.S. Chemical Engineering) has more than 30 years’ experience in energy research and development, combustion systems, fuels characterization, preparation and handling, hardware development and testing, and emissions characterization and control. He has been PI or co-PI of over $44 M in sponsored research. He is the author of four books published by Elsevier

Table of Contents

Introduction: Past, Present, and Future Role of Coal
1: Chemistry of Coal
2: Worldwide Distribution of Coal
3: The Effect of Coal Usage on Human Health and the Environment
4: Technologies for Coal Utilization
5: Anatomy of a Coal-Fired Power Plant
6: Coal-Fired Emissions International Regulations
7: Advanced Pulverized Coal-Fired Power Plants
8: Fluidized-Bed Combustion Technology
9: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Systems
10: Clean Liquids and Gaseous Fuels from Coal for Power Generation
11: Emissions Control Strategies
12: CO2 Capture and Sequestration
13: Emissions Trading
14: Future Power Generation
Appendix A.: Coal-Fired Emissions Factors
Appendix B: List of Hazardous Air Pollutants
Appendix C: Initial 261 Units Identified in Phase I (SO2) of the Acid Rain Program (from 1st edition)
Appendix D.: Commercial Gasificatoin Facilities Worldwide

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Miller covers a new generation of energy processes that sharply reduce air emissions and other pollutants from coal-burning power plants

Editorial Reviews

"This is the second book by Bruce Miller and the author describes it as an update of the first book Coal Energy Systems published by Elsevier in 2005. The title has been changed to reflect the greater emphasis on ‘clean’ coal technologies to reduce the environmental impact of coal utilization…. It is very much an update of the 2005 text, with all of the chapters and sections from the original included and updated by substituting more recent data, for example on coal and energy reserves and consumption and the status of coal technology developments particularly in the United States…. [T]he book provides a good overview of the regulatory and environmental challenges facing the coal industry in the United States, and the programs and technologies being developed to address them." —AIE’s EnergyNews, December 2011

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