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China's Largest Coal Fired Power Plant

 
The largest Coal fired Power Plant in China has recently gone into production.
Equipped with four 1,000 megawatt generating units this facility is believed to be the worlds largest coal fired power plant engineered with Ultra-Supercritical Technologies .
This final stage of development completes a project which was started in December 2006 when the first two generators started production.  The plant is owned and operated by the China Huaneng Group   
Clean Coal power generation remains the elusive target of numerous research projects by countries around the globe.  Whilst not the final step,  Ultra-Supercritical Technology brings incremental process improvement to the systems and when coupled with Carbon Capture Techniques which are also being developed,  the light at the end of the tunnel begins to glow a little brighter

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Saturday 8 December, 2007 11:04 PM
 
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