And powdered lignin can be added to pulverized coal for burning in power plants.

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The Center will test emerging technologies on a 880 MW pulverized coal plant.

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Shell's gasification technique consists of partially combusting pulverized coal to yield carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas, which combine to form synthetic natural gas.

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Celanese will build on methods it already uses in China to turn pulverized coal into acetic acid and related acetyls used in paints and plastics.

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Inside the reactor, pulverized coal (consisting of 80% to 96% carbon) is heated to 1, 200 degrees with steam at 500 pounds per square inch of pressure.

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GreatPoint relied on widely available technology wherever possible, including the fluidized-bed reactor, common in power plants across the country, in which pulverized coal is combined with oxygen so it burns more efficiently.

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To keep turbine sales spinning, Immelt has turned to a process that partially burns pulverized coal in the presence of pure oxygen to turn it into a flammable gas that can drive linked gas and steam turbines.

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In 2009, the company generated 29% of its revenue from selling steam coal to power plants, and 10% from sales of coking and pulverized coal that feeds the blast furnaces at steel mills and other metallurgical operations.

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To meet demand in the Carolinas Rogers proposed building two 800-megawatt pulverized-coal generators.

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Over 17 years it has built seven plants (five others are in construction) nationwide and has become quite nimble at navigating the permit process. (It's easier to get approvals if you're a private company than if you're a public utility.) In 2004 LS filed a proposal to build a 1, 600-megawatt, supercritical pulverized-coal plant in White Pine.

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