Hail Mary! Buckeye's Notre Dame test touted success

摘要

Buckeye Industrial Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of Evergreen Energy, successfully concluded a comprehensive test burn at the University of Notre Dame involving 50 and 75 percent blends of K-Fuel refined coal with high-sulfur, low-fusion eastern Ohio bituminous coal, the company said. According to Evergreen, the test was designed to take advantage of K-Fuel's ultra low levels of mercury, chloride and sulfur while maintaining the boiler at or near its full load. A feed of 100 percent K-Fuel was tested as well. Evergreen said the test results - verified through stack testing by a third party - demonstrated that when compared to the base bituminous coal normally used in the Babcock & Wilcox cyclone boiler, a 100 percent burn of K-Fuel reduced chloride emissions by 75 percent and sulfur dioxide emissions by 90 percent. The difference in mercury content of K-Fuel as compared to the feedstock coal was a reduction of 75 percent.