coal plant

collocation in English

meaningsofcoalandplant

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coal
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəʊl/us
/koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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plant
noun
uk
/plɑːnt/us
/plænt/
a living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and ...
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(Definition ofcoalandplantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is cheaper to buy an oil plant and to keep it than to buy acoalplant, because a significant capital sum is required.
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Because of different lifetime operating régimes, these system savings are not identical for nuclear andcoalplant.
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Any cleancoalplantwould probably displace existingcoalplant, at some cost and without substantial efficiency gain.
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I would like to see coal producers and generators establish a cleancoalplant.
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Living within 50 miles of acoalplantadds 0.03 mrem per year.
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Burning natural gas at an existingcoalplantwould require a pipeline with the ability to meet the plants fuel supply requirements.
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Fly ash uranium sometimes leaches into the soil and water surrounding acoalplant, affecting cropland and, in turn, food.
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For a pulverizedcoalplant, the increase is approximately 68%.
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If thecoalplantwas not built, there would have been significant limitations placed on industrial development in the country.
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Because the torrefied straw pellets have superior structural, chemical and combustion properties to coal, they can replace all coal and turn acoalplantinto an entirely biomass-fed power station.
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In reference to such a standardcoalplant, one rosenfeld of saved electricity also avoids emissions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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Clough's parents ran the local ice andcoalplant.
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We should then go on to consider the commerial use of oil from coal plants.
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I do not think that it is true of coal plants.
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It has fallen from a peak of 28 million tons in 1955, but coal plants still provide much of the base load gas.
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We are not building any new plant based on coal, and as coal plants go out to give way to methane and oil, how will we get smokeless fuel?
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Clean coal demonstration plants should be built now to prepare the way for the higher efficiency coal plants that will be required to replace the old, low efficiency plants.
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I understand that the fall in the price of crude oil has brought down the cost of an oil plant only to that of the least efficient coal plants.
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Between 2010 and 2014, approximately 150 coal plants were shut down.
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