Power industry seeks high-tech solutions
AP Environmental Writer
MARQUETTE — It somewhat resembles a honeycomb: row upon row of sturdy fabric bags, each 26 feet long and stretched over a steel frame that preserves its conical shape.
For high-tech gadgetry, it's short on bells and whistles. Yet this mechanism inside a cavernous building at the Presque Isle Power Plant may help achieve one of the nation's top environmental goals: slashing mercury emissions from incineration of coal to generate electricity.
It's part of a new system called Toxecon. Designed by industry researchers, it prevents gaseous mercury from escaping into the atmosphere by mixing it with carbon, creating ash that is collected in the fabric bags and trucked to landfills.
Full story:
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please do not promote businesses that are not about keeping the environment clean or renewable energy via comments on this blog. All such posts will be reported as spam and removed.