The Future of Coal: How Technologies can Provide "Greener" Power and the Pathway to End Coal
(Room Garuda 8, 1st Floor)
18 Sep 18
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Tracks:
TRACK B - Finance & Investment
Coal provides around 40 per cent of the world’s energy and has been the fastest growing global energy source for over a decade. However, the existing 2,300 coal-fired power plants currently generate around 43 percent of global CO2 emissions, and this will increase with over a thousand new coal-fired power plants planned for development in around 60 countries. In this presentation, I an overview of various conventional and unconventional technologies that coal fired power plants adopt. The challenges of various technologies and suggestions will also be presented. • Technology selection: A matrix of various coal fuel and boiler technology and the level of emission will be presented (Such as De-NOx, De-SOx, Heavy metals and dust). The choice of technology and associated cost can act as a “rule of thumb” for cost and effect comparison for meeting various standards. • Co-Firing: Burning biomass has induced tremendous environmental problem as non-point source. I will present the feasibility of co-firing of agricultural waste, municipal waste and coal in various regions and how the market and logistic of biomass supply can help to bring down cost to solve part of this problem. Second, I will suggest various roadmaps in how power companies (in regional APAC countries) to de-risk from coal fired power plant while maintaining a stable power supply. • Various stable power supply options such as solar+ wind + PV hybrid system, power-to-gas etc will be compared • Decommissioning of coal fired power plant: It is expected that the coal fired power plant will come to a saturation/ peak by the end of next decade. The residual environmental impact of existing plants and how it can be mitigated worth discussion.