Moving the Coal Through a CoalFired Power Plant Thermo Fisher Scientific
Every year billion tons of coal are burned in the, with 90% of that being used for electricity generation. Several years ago, a University of Illinois professor reported that to produce 109 kWh/year of power, a plant burns 14,000 tons of coal every day. He noted that the coal that goes to a typical coalfired power plant is crushed to approximately 5 cm in size before it is loaded ...