Recent developments in drying and dewatering for low rank coals

Z Rao, Y Zhao, C Huang, C Duan, J He - Progress in Energy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Globally, low rank coals are responsible for about half of the world's total coal deposits.
However, these low rank coals present a high moisture content, which significantly impacts …

A review of kinetic studies on evaporative dehydration of lignite

R Han, A Zhou, N Zhang, Z Li - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Dehydration is a necessary link for lignite upgrading, and evaporative dehydration is one of
the most effective dehydration technologies for lignite. Kinetics, as a fundamental …

Operation scheduling of a coal-fired CHP station integrated with power-to-heat devices with detail CHP unit models by particle swarm optimization algorithm

M Liu, S Wang, J Yan - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The accommodation of high-penetration renewable power poses a considerable challenge
to power grids. Coal-fired combined heat and power (CHP) stations are forced to enhance …

Quantity, quality, and availability of waste heat from United States thermal power generation

DB Gingerich, MS Mauter - Environmental science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Secondary application of unconverted heat produced during electric power generation has
the potential to improve the life-cycle fuel efficiency of the electric power industry and the …

An efficient and low-cost solar-aided lignite drying power generation system based on cascade utilisation of concentrating and non-concentrating solar energy

Y Han, Y Sun, J Wu - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
A new solar-aided power generation system is proposed. It is based on the unique
characteristics of non-concentrating and concentrating solar energy applied to lignite drying …

Model establishment and performance evaluation of a modified regenerative system for a 660 MW supercritical unit running at the IPT-setting mode

Y Wang, L Cao, P Hu, B Li, Y Li - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Improving denitrification efficiency of supercritical unit for peak load regulation by changing
feed water temperature has become a focus of thermal power engineering under wide load …

A novel solar energy integrated low-rank coal fired power generation using coal pre-drying and an absorption heat pump

C Xu, P Bai, T **n, Y Hu, G Xu, Y Yang - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
A novel solar energy integrated low-rank coal (LRC) fired power generation using coal pre-
drying and an absorption heat pump (AHP) was proposed. The proposed integrated system …

Hydrothermal dewatering of low-rank coals: Influence on the properties and combustion characteristics of the solid products

H Ullah, G Liu, B Yousaf, MU Ali, Q Abbas, C Zhou… - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The presence of increased moisture content, low energy density and maximum spontaneous
combustion tendency has raised serious environmental issues, which are obstacles to large …

An improved configuration of lignite pre-drying using a supplementary steam cycle in a lignite fired supercritical power plant

C Xu, G Xu, S Zhao, L Zhou, Y Yang, D Zhang - Applied energy, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel concept of improved configuration of lignite pre-drying using a supplementary steam
cycle incorporated in a lignite fired supercritical power plant was proposed in this study …

Influence of increased primary air ratio on boiler performance in a 660 MW brown coal boiler

Z Li, Z Miao, Y Zhou, S Wen, J Li - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
A computational fluid dynamics model was established based on a 660 MW brown coal
boiler, to study the effects of primary air ratio (PAR) on boiler performance. To improve …