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Reducing life‐cycle environmental impacts of coal‐power by using coal‐mine methane
Author(s) -
Śliwińska Anna,
CzaplickaKolarz Krystyna
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.2908
Subject(s) - methane , greenhouse gas , coal , life cycle assessment , environmental science , coal mining , waste management , tonne , carbon sequestration , clean coal , clean coal technology , environmental impact assessment , methane emissions , environmental engineering , mining engineering , carbon dioxide , engineering , production (economics) , chemistry , geology , ecology , organic chemistry , economics , macroeconomics , oceanography , biology
SUMMARY The exploitation of coal‐mine methane is analysed to reduce the environmental impact from coal power systems. The analyses are based on a life cycle assessment, and the results were compared with carbon‐capture and storage technologies. The results suggest that by increasing the use of coalmine methane, the environmental impacts of coal power plants could be clearly reduced. Although the CO 2 reduction is much less than through sequestration of CO 2 , increased use of coal‐mine methane in Poland could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 9 million tonnes of CO 2 per year, which corresponds to about 2.5% of the emissions of Poland. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.