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EPA Rolls Out More Stringent Effluent Limitations Guidelines for Coal Power Plants

March 8, 2023 admin bottom ash transport, Coal, coal power, effluent, elgs, Environmental, EPA, FGD, Fuel, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, Wastewater, zero-discharge

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:53:06 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing more stringent discharge standards for three types of coal power plant wastewater as part of an update to its Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELGs). However, the agency also proposed compliance flexibilities, and in a separate direct final rule, moved to extend a deadline to allow more coal plants to […]

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Chimney Failure Takes Out Unit at Kusile, One of World’s Biggest Coal Plants

November 3, 2022 admin Coal, eskom, FGD, kusile, medupi, news, O&M, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:08:37 +0000

A severe failure on a duct exiting the sulfur dioxide absorber at Unit 1 of Eskom’s massive coal-fired 4.8-GW Kusile power plant, which is under construction in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, has shuttered the 800-MW unit and delayed Unit 2’s return to service. Eskom on Nov. 2 announced the section of the Kusile 1 flue […]

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Why Sulfur Oxides Are Bad and How Flue Gas Desulfurization Technology Works

November 1, 2022 admin biomass, Coal, emissions, emissions controls, Environmental, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FGD, flue gas desulfurization, full coverage, Gas, International, news, O&M, power, SO2, sox, waste to energy

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:12:00 +0000

Sulfur oxides (SO x ) have several harmful effects both to the environment, and to human and animal health. Much of the SO x in the atmosphere comes from the burning of fossil fuels by power plants and other

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EPA Proposes Revisions to Two Obama-Era Rules: Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Coal Ash

November 4, 2019 admin Business, ccr, closure deadlines, Coal, coal ash, coal ash impoundments, coal combustion residuals, courts, elg, Environmental, EPA, FGD, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, selenium, steam electric plants, Technology, toxic, Wastewater, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:45:51 +0000

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued long-awaited proposed revisions of two 2015 Obama-era rules that apply to effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) for steam electric power plants and coal combustion residuals (CCR) management by electric utilities. The agency coordinated the release of the two related revisions, which apply overwhelmingly to coal-fired steam power plants, after […]

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EPA Delayed on Proposed ELG Revisions for Steam Power Plants

July 9, 2019 admin bat, bottom ash wastestreams, Business, ccr, Coal, coal ash, courts, delays, effluent limitations guidelines, elgs, Environmental, FGD, Gas, gasification, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, pses, trump administration

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:26:26 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is behind on its proposed revisions to the Obama administration’s effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) for steam electric power plants. In an e-mail to POWER on July 9, the EPA confirmed that the agency was still “working expeditiously” to complete the proposed rule, and it has yet to submit it to […]

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Clean Air Program Makes Shawnee Power Plant a Winner

August 1, 2018 admin aecom, babcock power, Business, Coal, coal power plant, Environmental, FGD, flue gas desulfurization, ge power, kentucky, retrofit, scr, selective catalytic reduction, shawnee fossil plant, Technology, tennessee valley authority, top plant, TVA

Emissions standards have changed a lot since the Shawnee Fossil Plant entered service during President Eisenhower’s second term in office, but the Tennessee Valley Authority has done its part to help the

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