T. Shendrik, N. Dunayevska, A. Tsaryuk, Valery Ielagin, A. Fateyev
{"title":"Experimental Development of Approaches To Reduce the Slagging and Corrosive Activity of Salty Coal","authors":"T. Shendrik, N. Dunayevska, A. Tsaryuk, Valery Ielagin, A. Fateyev","doi":"10.15587/1729-4061.2020.217585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2020.217585","url":null,"abstract":"The problems of reducing the slagging ability and corrosiveness of coal with a high content of low-melting salts (the so-called salty coal (SC) in the processes of its combustion) are considered. Salty coal is considered to be the coal, the ash of which contains Na 2 O>2 %. The object of study is the salty coal of Donbass and ways of solving the problems of its use. The influence of low-melting salts on the formation of ash deposits and the development of corrosion of the metal surface during the combustion of salty coal from different fields was determined. A noticeable decrease in the slagging ability and corrosiveness of the test coal was noted during the removal of salts by water extraction. The composition of corrosive compounds (oxides Fe 2 O 3, Fe 3 O 4 and iron sulfide FeS) has been determined, formed during the combustion of native coal, and their absence in the case of desalinated coal. Artificial fuel mixtures produced from more reactive salty and conventional low reactive coal have been studied. To create a mixed fuel, long-flame salty coal (low stage of metamorphism) from the Northern Donbas and unsalty lean coal (high stage of metamorphism) from Kuzbas were used. A significant deviation (to 9 %) was noted for the release of ash during the combustion of mixtures from the additivity, indicating a chemical interaction between the mineral components of the mixture. The formation of new refractory mineral phases of ash (nepheline, ultramarine, combeite) during the combustion of composite fuel from coals of different metamorphism and salinity was established. The obtained results will be useful in the development of recommendations for the preparation of model fuel mixtures and their accident-free combustion in industrial boiler units. Experimental data on the determination of new mineral compounds in the case of composite fuels can be used to create a general theory of slagging in the combustion of salty coal of different origins","PeriodicalId":177787,"journal":{"name":"EnergyRN: Coal (Topic)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127780268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death of Coal and Breath of Life: The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality","authors":"Jason Brown, Colton Tousey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3729579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3729579","url":null,"abstract":"The number of U.S. coal-fired power plants declined by nearly 250 between 2001 and 2018. Given that burning coal generates large amounts of particulate matter, which is known to have adverse health effects, the closure of a coal-fired power plant should improve local air quality. Using spatial panel data from air quality monitor stations and coal-fired power plants, we estimate the relationship between plant closure and local air quality. We find that on average, the levels of particulate matter within 25 and 50 mile buffers around air quality monitors declined between 7 and 14 percent with each closure. We estimate that closure is associated with a 0.6 percent decline in local mortality probabilities. In terms of the value of a statistical life, the median local benefit of a coal power plant closure has ranged between $1 and $4 billion or 5 to 15 percent of local GDP since the early 2000s.","PeriodicalId":177787,"journal":{"name":"EnergyRN: Coal (Topic)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124621234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Death Spiral of Coal in the USA: Will New U.S. Energy Policy Change the Tide?","authors":"Roman Mendelevitch, Christian Hauenstein, F. Holz","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3342032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3342032","url":null,"abstract":"The Trump administration has promised to stop the spiraling down of the U.S. coal industry that has been going on for several years. We discuss the origins of the decline of the U.S. coal industry and new policy interventions by the Trump administration. We find that a further decrease of coal consumption in the U.S. electricity sector must be expected because of the old and inefficient U.S. coal-fired generation fleet. By contrast, we adapt the EIA’s overly optimistic view and analyze three potential support schemes to assess whether under such assumptions they can turn the tide for the U.S. coal industry: i) revoking the Clean Power Plan (CPP); ii) facilitating access to the booming Asian market by developing West Coast coal export terminals; and iii) enhanced support for the Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage (CCTS) technology to provide a long-term perspective for domestic coal use while mitigating climate change. We investigate the short-term and long-term effects for U.S. coal production using a comprehensive partial equilibrium model of the world steam coal market, COALMOD-World (Holz et al. 2016). Revoking the CPP will stop the downward trend of steam coal consumption in the U.S., but will not lead to a return of U.S. coal production to the levels of the 2000s with more than 900 Mtpa. Even when assuming a continuously strong global coal demand and expanding U.S. coal export capacities, U.S. coal production will not return to its previous production highs. When global steam coal use, including U.S. consumption, is aligned with the 2°C climate target, U.S. steam coal production drops to around 100 Mtpa by 2030 and below 50 Mtpa by 2050, respectively, even if CCTS is available and exports via the U.S. West Coast are possible.","PeriodicalId":177787,"journal":{"name":"EnergyRN: Coal (Topic)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123274362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies","authors":"Todd D. Gerarden, S. Reeder, J. Stock","doi":"10.1257/POL.20160246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/POL.20160246","url":null,"abstract":"Can supply-side environmental policies that limit the extraction of fossil fuels reduce CO2 emissions? This paper studies interactions between a specific supply-side policy—a carbon surcharge on federal coal royalties—and regulation of emissions from the power sector under the Clean Air Act. Estimates from a detailed dynamic model of the power sector suggest that, absent new downstream regulation, a royalty surcharge equal to the social cost of carbon would generate three-quarters of the emissions reductions originally projected for the Clean Power Plan (CPP), with an average abatement cost roughly equal to the social cost of carbon. Were the CPP in place, the royalty surcharge would reduce emissions by reducing leakage and causing the CPP to be nonbinding in some scenarios. (JEL Q35, Q38, Q48, Q54, Q58)","PeriodicalId":177787,"journal":{"name":"EnergyRN: Coal (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129630775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of Being Downwind of a Coal-Fired Power Plant on Infant Health at Birth: Evidence from the Precedent-Setting Portland Rule","authors":"Muzhe Yang, Shin-Yi Chou","doi":"10.3386/W21723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W21723","url":null,"abstract":"We conduct the first study on the impacts of prenatal exposure to a uniquely identified large polluter, a coal-fired power plant located near the border of two states, on the birth outcomes of the downwind state. For mothers who live as far as 20 to 40 miles away but downwind of the power plant, being exposed to power plant emissions, in particular sulfur dioxide, during the first month of pregnancy could increase the likelihood of having full-term babies but with low birth weight, an indicator of slow fetal growth, by as much as 42 percent. This adverse impact could be driven by reactive sulfur species-induced intrauterine oxidative stress, arising from maternal exposure to emissions of sulfur dioxide, whose travelling from the emission source to the downwind region has been confirmed in the Portland Rule. In light of EPA’s continual efforts in regulating power plant emissions, our study is aimed at broadening the scope of cross-border pollution analysis by taking into account adverse infant heath impacts from upwind polluters, which can burden the downwind states disproportionately.","PeriodicalId":177787,"journal":{"name":"EnergyRN: Coal (Topic)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133707309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}