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DOI	10.2172/6726936
报告编号	BNL-50708
来源ID	OSTI_ID: 6726936
	Assessment of the solid waste impact of the National Energy Plan
	Meier, P; Rubin, E; Le, T; Stern, R; Kaplan, E; Barvenik, F; Blumer, K
英文摘要	The only significant effect of the National Energy Plan (NEP) on solid waste management in electric utilities will be to shift the regional distribution of impacts. Nationally, NEP may result in an increase of ash by 1 percent, and a decrease in the scrubber sludge disposal area requirement by up to 10 percent. Using current technology for fixation of scrubber sludge, ultimate disposal by landfill, and subsequent revegetation, utilities can provide environmentally acceptable methods of scrubber sludge disposal at a small fraction of the total cost of FGD system installation and operation. A significant fraction of coal using industries will use FGD systems that produce liquid effluents rather than sludge residuals, with discharge to municipal sewage systems or to water bodies. This will increase dissolved solids concentrations in the receiving waters, but at concentrations that are not expected to be of environmental concern except in the arid regions of the west. Because of the significant cost of sludge transportation, industries that have inadequate land for on-site disposal may incur significant cost penalities for sludge disposal, in addition to facing opposition at the local level to the use of regional or municipal disposal facilities. In contrast to the utility sector, the question of whether solid waste management problems would pose a significant impediment to the industrial coal conversion goals of the NEP cannot be definitively assessed at the present time. The key environmental uncertainty is the fate of trace and heavy metals at industrial facilities using liquid scrubbing systems and subsequent liquid waste treatment processes, for which no adequate data currently exists.
出版年	1978
报告类型	Technical Report
语种	英语
国家	美国
来源学科分类	01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT ; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY ; 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS ; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION ; ASHES ; WASTE DISPOSAL ; ELECTRIC UTILITIES ; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS ; SLUDGES ; SOLID WASTES ; DESULFURIZATION ; ELEMENTS ; FLUE GAS ; NATIONAL ENERGY PLAN ; REGIONAL ANALYSIS ; REVEGETATION ; SANITARY LANDFILLS ; SCRUBBERS ; TRACE AMOUNTS ; USA ; CHEMICAL REACTIONS ; ENERGY POLICY ; EQUIPMENT ; GASEOUS WASTES ; GOVERNMENT POLICIES ; MANAGEMENT ; NORTH AMERICA ; POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT ; PUBLIC UTILITIES ; RESIDUES ; WASTE MANAGEMENT ; WASTES 010800* -- Coal, Lignite, & Peat-- Waste Management ; 290300 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Environment, Health, & Safety ; 200200 -- Fossil-Fueled Power Plants-- Waste Management ; 320305 -- Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Industrial Waste Management
URL	http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/6726936
资源类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/261972
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Meier, P,Rubin, E,Le, T,et al. Assessment of the solid waste impact of the National Energy Plan,1978.