Hybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half

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This illustration depicts a possible configuration for the combined system proposed by MIT researchers. At the bottom, steam (pink arrows) passes through pulverized coal, releasing gaseous fuel (red arrows) made up of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This fuel goes into a solid oxide fuel cell (disks near top), where it reacts with oxygen from the air (blue arrows) to produce electricity (loop at right).

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Jeffrey Hanna

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