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Appendix G: Glossary
Appendix G: Glossary
Pages 215-221
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black liquor gasification: Black liquor gasification offers pulp and paper mills the most efficient method for converting biomass energy to electric power, with thermal efficiencies of 74 percent compared with 64 percent in modern recovery boilers. Black liquor gasification also has environmental benefits, such as fewer CO2 emissions
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CAFE requirements: Corporate average fuel economy is a sales-weighted average fuel mileage calculation, in terms of miles per gallon, based on city and highway fuel economy measurements performed as part of federal emis sions test procedures. CAFE requirements were instituted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 and modified by the Automobile Fuel Efficiency Act of 1980.
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They include schemes such as rebates to customers for installation of energy-efficient appliances and reduced rates for nonpeak-load use of electricity to encourage customers to reduce electricity consumption overall or at certain periods. Eastern Gas Shales Project: The Eastern Gas Shales Project's technology and information have achieved significant cost reductions in gas shale development and production.
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flue gas: Gas that is left over after fuel is burned and which is disposed of through a pipe or stack to the atmosphere. APPENDIX G fluorescent lamp: A tubular electric lamp that is coated on its inner surface with a phosphor and that contains mercury vapor whose bombardment by electrons from the cathode provides ultraviolet light, which causes the phosphor to emit visible light either of a selected color or closely approximating daylight.
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liquefaction: Processes that convert coal into a liquid fuel similar in nature to crude oil and/or refined products. 219 longwall mining: An automated form of underground coal mining characterized by high recovery and extraction rates, feasible only in relatively flat-lying, thick, and uniform coalbeds.
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The oxy-fuel furnace substitutes oxygen for air in the combustion process. This change in the process significantly reduces NOX emissions, reduces the amount of energy required per ton of glass produced, reduces levels of other gases, and reduces the capital costs for furnace regenerators and emissions control equipment.
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waste management: Waste products from the combustion of fossil fuels for power generation include by-product materials from scrubbers and fly ash. The Waste Management Utilization Program is oriented toward providing improved methods of waste characterization and handling, advances in resource recovery and reutilization techniques, and sound management and/or disposal of combustion and other fossil wastes in compliance with environmental regulations.
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