New Filtering Machine Could Eliminate Coal Waste

Date: October 11, 2001

Source: News Room

University of Kentucky researchers have created a device that could someday eliminate the 1.5 billion tons of gray waste from coal-fired power plants every year in the United States. Scientists with UK's Center for Applied Energy Research hope their new technology will turn the contaminated material, a mixture of water and leftover coal ash from a power plant's furnaces and flues, into fuel for more electricity, and products such as cinder blocks and roadbed material. More information: www.caer.uky.edu.

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