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Environmental control implications of generating electric power from coal. Technology status report. Volume I

Description: This is the first in a series of reports evaluating environmental control technologies applicable to the coal-to-electricity process. The technologies are described and evaluated from an engineering and cost perspective based upon the best available information obtained from utility experience and development work in progress. Environmental control regulations and the health effects of pollutants are also reviewed. Emphasis is placed primarily upon technologies that are now in use. For SO/sub 2… more
Date: December 1, 1976
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Environmental control implications of generating electric power from coal. Technology status report. Volume II

Description: This is the first in a series of reports evaluating environmental control technologies applicable to the coal-to-electricity process. The technologies are described and evaluated from an engineering and cost perspective based upon the best available information obtained from utility experience and development work in progress. Environmental control regulations and the health effects of pollutants are also reviewed. Emphasis is placed primarily upon technologies that are now in use. For SO/sub 2… more
Date: December 1, 1976
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Air Pollution and the Siting of Fossil Fuel Power Plants

Description: The decision to locate a fossil-fueled electrical power plant on a particular site involves trade-offs among the costs of: (1) land acquisition, (2) plant construction, operation, and maintenance, (3) power transmission, and (4) air pollution damage to humans, animals, plants and materials. The fourth of these, pollution costs, has been of great concern in recent years. But seldom, if ever, are the specific dollar trade-offs between the environmental and the other costs associated with site sel… more
Date: 1976
Creator: Fishelson, Gideon; Rausser, Gordon C. & Cohen, Alan S.
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Issues in the future supply of electricity to the Northeast. [1985 and 2000]

Description: This assessment of the problems of the electric sector is part of the BNL study on the Energy Future of the Northeast. Topics covered by the issue papers include the potential supply of energy to the Northeast from coal, oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, nuclear power, municipal waste, solar energy, and wind power, and the demand for energy in the Northeast from the industrial, transportation, and residential and commercial sectors. This paper compares energy demand projections derived i… more
Date: June 1, 1976
Creator: Meier, P. M.; McCoy, T. H. & Rahman, S.
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Methods for analysis of trace elements in coal, coal fly ash, soil, and plant samples. [59 refs]

Description: Results of a literature search are presented, and analytical methods are proposed for studies of trace elements in coal, coal ash residue, soil, and vegetation. Increased trace element levels in soils and plants collected near power plants have been reported by several investigators. Many sample dissolution and analysis techniques were used in the reported studies. A nine-laboratory comparison of trace element analyses for a variety of methods showed excessive variation relative to quoted uncer… more
Date: November 1, 1976
Creator: Slates, R. V.
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Power plant siting; an application of the nominal group process technique

Description: The application of interactive group processes to the problem of facility siting is examined by this report. Much of the discussion is abstracted from experience gained in applying the Nominal Group Process Technique, an interactive group technique, to the identification and rating of factors important in siting nuclear power plants. Through this experience, interactive group process techniques are shown to facilitate the incorporation of the many diverse factors which play a role in siting. In… more
Date: October 3, 1976
Creator: Voelker, A. H.
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Dynamic analysis of the environmental and social impacts of coal development in the eastern Powder River Basin of Wyoming, 1960--2010

Description: A dynamic regional coal development model is constructed for the Eastern Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Using this model, alternative development schedules from a recent environmental impact statement submitted to the Department of the Interior are simulated. These alternatives include different mixes of export capacity, different coal conversion techniques within the region, as well as various levels of coal production. Exportation of 70 to 80 percent of an ultimate coal production of 180 mill… more
Date: July 1, 1976
Creator: Jacobsen, J. J.
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Mathematical and experimental investigations on dispersion and recirculation of plumes from dry cooling towers at Wyodak Power Plant in Wyoming

Description: The study presented was conducted (1) to develop a two-dimensional mathematical simulation model for determination of plume dispersion and recirculation from an existing code; (2) to investigate experimentally and mathematically the recirculation and temperature distributions of plumes from two dry cooling towers at the Wyodak Plant in Wyoming; and (3) to elucidate the effects of wind velocity, temperature of heated effluent, adjacent cooling towers and local topography on plume dispersion and … more
Date: February 1, 1976
Creator: Onishi, Y. & Trent, D. S.
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Estimating agricultural production and its response to SO/sub 2/ in the Pacific Northwest. [Fossil-fuel power plant effluents]

Description: The construction and operation of a coal-fired power plant and associated support facilities (mines, roads, towns, tracks) present a significant impact on the natural and man-made ecosystems in the surrounding area. The major sources of impact are changes in the land area available for agriculture, changes in crops cultivated in the remaining area, and the effects of stack effluents on plant growth and production. This paper describes a potentially useful means of estimating agricultural produc… more
Date: October 1, 1976
Creator: Sauer, R. H.
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ELSA: an electric power supply analysis model for the Pacific Northwest. [Effects of developments]

Description: Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting a program to help assess impacts of energy-related developments through the year 2025 in six northwestern states--Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. ELSA (Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this overall program, is a simulation model of the electric supply system in the Pacific Northwest designed to better define future effects of electrical developments. It permits the analyst to examine the st… more
Date: November 1, 1976
Creator: Harrington, T. P. & Jacobsen, J. J.
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Consensus forecast of U. S. electricity supply and demand to the year 2000

Description: Recent forecasts of total electricity generating capacity and energy demand as well as for electricity produced from nuclear energy and hydroelectric power are presented in tables and graphs to the year 2000. A forecast of the distribution of type of fuel and energy source that will supply the future electricity demand is presented. Use of electricity by each major consuming sector is presented for 1975. Projected demands for electricity in the years 1985 and 2000, as allocated to consuming sec… more
Date: February 1, 1976
Creator: Lane, J. A.
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Retrofitted feedwater heat storage for steam electric power stations peaking power engineering study. Final report

Description: The technical and economic feasibility of retrofitting existing nuclear or fossil-fueled steam power plants with feedwater thermal energy storage (TES) systems for peaking power applications was investigated. A major objective of the study was to determine if retrofitted thermal energy storage (RTES) systems could result in significant fuel savings in oil- and gas-fired peaking plants. From this study it was concluded that RTES require high capital expenditure, excessive plant downtime for inst… more
Date: October 1, 1976
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Environmental effects of solid waste as a supplemental fuel

Description: This report documents progress and summarizes effort between June 1975 and February 1976 on a project entitled ''Environmental Effects of Solid Waste as a Supplemental Fuel.''Procurement and calibration of equipment as well as training of personnel has been accomplished, and sampling is in progress to satisfy the objectives of the environmental study. All input and output stream associated with operation of the steam generating units at the Ames Municipal Power Plant are being sampled. Sampling… more
Date: March 1, 1976
Creator: Hall, J. L.; Joensen, A. W. & Shanks, H. R.
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1985 technical coefficients for inputs to energy technologies

Description: This report describes the incorporation of input--output technical coefficients for five new energy supply and conversion technologies as estimated by the MITRE Corporation into a 110-sector Energy I--O Model. The five new technologies are solvent refining of coal, oil shale mining and retorting, high-temperature gas-cooled reactor electricity generation, high-BTU coal gasification, and COGAS combined-cycle electricity generation. Incorporation of seven existing energy supply and conversion tec… more
Date: June 1, 1976
Creator: Lukachinski, J. & Tessmer, R. G. Jr.
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Environmental impacts of nonfusion power systems. [Data on environmental effects of all power sources that may be competitive with fusion reactor power plants]

Description: Data were collected on the environmental effects of power sources that may be competitive with future fusion reactor power plants. Data are included on nuclear power plants using HTGR, LMBR, GCFR, LMFBR, and molten salt reactors; fossil-fuel electric power plants; geothermal power plants; solar energy power plants, including satellite-based solar systems; wind energy power plants; ocean thermal gradient power plants; tidal energy power plants; and power plants using hydrogen and other synthetic… more
Date: September 1, 1976
Creator: Brouns, R. J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Input--output capital coefficients for energy technologies. [Input-output model]

Description: Input-output capital coefficients are presented for five electric and seven non-electric energy technologies. They describe the durable goods and structures purchases (at a 110 sector level of detail) that are necessary to expand productive capacity in each of twelve energy source sectors. Coefficients are defined in terms of 1967 dollar purchases per 10/sup 6/ Btu of output from new capacity, and original data sources include Battelle Memorial Institute, the Harvard Economic Research Project, … more
Date: December 1, 1976
Creator: Tessmer, R. G. Jr.
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Study of the extractability of alumina from fly ash by the lime-sinter process. [78 refs. ; appendix]

Description: The exploratory work combined with the derived results made it possible to reach the following conclusions. Magnetic separation of fly ash in water will dissolve all the sulfur contained in the original fly ash. Although it will recover less iron in the magnetic fraction than the wet separation, the dry separation is more convenient. It is not necessary to use a very high pressure to make pellets, since the alumina recovery percentage does not increase with the pressure. A pressure of 8000 psi … more
Date: June 1, 1976
Creator: Chou, K. S.
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Contamination of groundwater by heavy metals from the land disposal of fly ash. Technical progress report, June 1, 1976--August 31, 1976

Description: A useful method of differentiating surface from total heavy metals associated with fly ash is selective extraction for those metal oxide sinks (Fe, Al, Mn) with which the heavy metals have become associated. This association is important in defining the release of the metals in aqueous environments. This desorption, as well as subsequent adsorption onto local soil matter is pH dependent, lower pH values favoring greater release or less adsorption in the system. Another aspect of trace metal che… more
Date: October 1, 1976
Creator: Theis, T. L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internalizing social costs in power plant siting: some examples for coal and nuclear plants in the United States

Description: Selected aspects of the United States experience in one particular type of energy development project, the siting of nuclear and fossil fueled power generating facilities, are examined in terms of how well community-level impacts are internalized. New institutional arrangements being devised and new requirements being made at local, state, regional, and federal levels in response to these dissociations of cost and benefits from large energy development projects are discussed. Selected examples … more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Peelle, E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Regional air quality assessment for probable near-term coal-related energy development in the northwest. [19 refs]

Description: Regional impacts associated with the ''possible'' near-term scenario of coal-fired electrical generation and coal gasification development in the Pacific Northwest have been analyzed. This analysis is based on Federal New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and a regional scale transport, transformation and removal model for SO/sub 2/, sulfates, particulates, and NO/sub x/. No significant incremental amounts of SO/sub 2/, particulates, or NO/sub x/ are added to the background level of regional … more
Date: October 1, 1976
Creator: Renne, D. S. & Elliott, D. L.
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Mission analysis of photovoltaic solar energy systems. Quarterly progress report, 1 March 1976-31 May 1976

Description: The main emphasis of the activity during the second quarter of this project continued to be on Task 1, Analysis of Near-Term Missions, and on Task 2, Analysis of Major Mid-Term Missions. In addition, considerable progress was also made on Task 6, Comparison of the True Societal Costs of Conventional and Photovoltaic Power Production, and starts were made on Task 3, Review and Updating of the ERDA Technology Implementation Plan, and Task 4, Critical External Issues. As was planned, work on Task … more
Date: June 1, 1976
Creator: Leonard, S. L.; Munjal, P. K. & Rattin, E. J.
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[Western Coal Study]. Mound Laboratory-USEPA Interagency Agreement IAG-D5-E681: Progress report number 1, July 12--August 13, 1976

Description: Major accomplishments during the first five weeks of this study include: (1) successful adaption of analytical methods; (2) preparation of detailed operational sheets; (3) selection of mines to be sampled, through USGS and various state geologists; and (4) successful completion of coal mine sampling. Complete operational sheets have been prepared which include steps taken from collection of the sample at the mine through counting of that sample for radioactivity. The purpose of these operationa… more
Date: December 31, 1976
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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