Technological progress in particulate removal equipment at U.S. coal burning power plants |
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Authors: | Allen S Bellas Ian Lange |
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Institution: | (1) City of Kemi, The Town Planning and Building Committee, Environmental Research Division, Valtakatu 26, 94100 Kemi, Finland;(2) Stora Enso Oyj, Veitsiluoto Mill, 94830 Kemi, Finland;(3) Mass and Heat Transfer Process Laboratory, Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4300, 90014 Oulu, Finland |
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Abstract: | Coal-fired power plants contribute significantly to particulate matter emissions, which are regulated in the U.S. with emissions
standards set by individual states. The theoretical literature generally, though not always, finds that standards offer inferior
incentives to develop and adopt technological innovations, especially in end-of-pipe pollution control. This analysis empirically
tests for cost-saving innovations in the operating, capital, and lifetime costs of flue gas particulate collectors. Results
suggest that operating costs have fallen over time, capital costs have increased, and that these changes have led to no statistical
change in lifetime costs. |
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