ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND COAL QUALITY PARAMETERS OF SOMA, KARAPINAR AND SAHINALI COALS IN TURKEY

KARADİREK S., ÖZÇELİK O., ALTUNSOY M.

FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN, cilt.28, sa.2, ss.873-878, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 28 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Dergi Adı: FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.873-878
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Coal, coal quality parameters, environmental aspects, hazardous trace elements, sulphur, TRACE-ELEMENTS
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Sustainable use of resources has become more crucial due to increasing global demand for energy. Coal's share of total world energy supply has increased from 24.5% to 28.6% between 1973 and 2014, whereas the share of coal in electricity generation in Turkey was around 29% in 2015. Turkey has relatively rich lignite deposits. However, lignite deposits of Turkey have low calorific value, high contents of ash, and total sulphur and contain significant trace elements which pose adverse health and environmental affects during combustion of coal. Many health problems such as arsenism, fluorosis that are associated with coal combustion have been reported. Due to environmental and public health problems, cleaner coal technologies have attracted a world wide attention.