Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any mixture of gases from the flues of smelting-works or other chemical factories.
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Examples
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Investments in 2008 had been inflated by spending on extraordinary items, such as flue-gas desulfurization scrubbers at Scottish Power's Longannet coal-fired power plant, Mr. Galán said.
Iberdrola Cuts Spending Plans Bernd Radowitz 2009
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Although carbon capture is possible at power plants through flue-gas scrubbing, designing millions of cars, trucks, and trains to capture CO2 from their exhaust streams is simply not practical.
Greenhouse Solution: Sucking The CO2 Straight Out Of The Atmosphere | Impact Lab 2007
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A mid-range estimate is 20 teragrams of sulphur, to be achieved if all large, new facilities are fitted with flue-gas desulphurisation units and other fossil-fuel users switch to low-sulphur fuels.
Chapter 8 2000
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Advantage is taken of this effect in flue-gas cleaning.
6. Electrical Field 1991
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For sampling the gases in the smokebox of the horizontal return-tubular boiler, a special flue-gas sampler was designed, in order to obtain a composite sample of the gases escaping from the boiler.
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MBD is regarded as being at the forefront of solutions for stationary industrial emitters such as power stations, smelters and refineries - that securely and efficiently convert captured flue-gas emissions into oil-rich algal biomass via proprietary systems.
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After the conference, an OriginOil team traveled to Tarong Power Station, near Brisbane, where they paced the new industrial demonstration site that MBD is now building to capture flue-gas CO2 from the coal-fired power plant.
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The sorbents, primarily sodium bicarbonate and trona, are used by coal-fired utilities to remove harmful pollutants, such as acid gases, in flue-gas treatment processes.
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The sorbents, primarily sodium bicarbonate and trona, are used by coal-fired utilities to remove harmful pollutants, such as acid gases, in flue-gas treatment processes.
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But for some plants, the lower emissions from PRB coal could delay or preclude the need to install flue-gas desulfurization FGD equipment at some power plants.
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