Clean Coal Engineering Technology - 9780128113653

Clean Coal Engineering TechnologyAuthor(s): Bruce G. Miller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, United States\nImprint: Butterworth-Heinemann Inc\nISBN-13: 9780128113653, 978-0128113653\nSynopsis\nClean 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 coals 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 .