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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. Coal is composed primarily of carbon along with variable quantities of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
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Tipping fee
Energy; Coal
Price charged to deliver municipal solid waste to a landfill, waste-to-energy facility, or recycling facility.
Nitrogen oxides ( OX)
Energy; Coal
Compounds of nitrogen and oxygen produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
Power production plant
Energy; Coal
All the land and land rights, structures and improvements, boiler or reactor vessel equipment, engines and engine-driven generator, turbo generator units, accessory electric equipment, and ...
Tennessee valley authority (TVA)
Energy; Coal
A federal agency established in 1933 to develop the Tennessee river valley region of the southeastern U.S.
Nonrequirements consumer
Energy; Coal
A wholesale consumer (unlike a full or partial requirements consumer) that purchases economic or coordination power to supplement their own or another system's energy needs.
Processing gain
Energy; Coal
The volumetric amount by which total output is greater than input for a given period of time. This difference is due to the processing of crude oil into products which, in total, have a lower ...
