General

• Topical Report #25: Power Plant Optimization Demonstration Projects [PDF-1.6MB] (Jan 2008)
  This report describes four projects having the goal of increasing power plant efficiency.
• Topical Report #24: Coal Utilization By-Products [PDF-1.6MB] (Aug 2006)
  This report describes three projects having the goal of increasing the use of coal utilization by-products (CUB) and the CUB market in general.
• Topical Report #18: Environmental Benefits of Clean Coal Technologies [PDF-2MB] (Apr 2001)
  This report describes a variety of processes that are capable of meeting existing and emerging environmental regulations and competing economically in a deregulated electric power marketplace.
• Topical Report #17: Software Systems in Clean Coal Demonstration Projects [PDF-650KB] (Dec 2001)
  This report describes computer software systems used to optimize coal utilization technologies.

Environmental Control Technologies
   Sulfur Dioxide Control Technologies

• Topical Report #12: Advanced Technologies for the Control of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions from Coal-Fired Boilers [PDF-1.6MB] (June 1999)
  A discussion of three CCT projects that demonstrate innovative wet Flue Gas Desulfurization technologies to remove greater than 90% SO₂.
• Topical Report #4: SO₂ Removal using Gas Suspension Absorption Technology [PDF-680KB] (Apr 1995)
  A plant near Paducah, Kentucky, demonstrates Gas Suspension Absorption, an innovative semi-dry flue gas desulfurization technology based on lime sorbent.

   NOx Control Technologies

• Topical Report #23: Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) Technology for the Control of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Coal-Fired Boilers; An Update of Topical Report Number 9 [PDF-881KB] (May 2005)
  An update of Topical Report #9, providing current information on the state-of-the-art of SCR technology.
• Topical Report #14: Reburning Technologies for the Control of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions from Coal-Fired Boilers [PDF-1.4MB] (May 1999)
  A discussion of three CCT projects that demonstrate the reburning technologies on existing coal-fired utility boilers to reduce emissions of NOx.
• Topical Report #9: Selective Catalytic Reduction [PDF-1.7MB] (July 1997)
  Control of NOx emissions at Southern Company Services/Gulf Power Co. Plant Crist, near Pensacola, FL.
• Topical Report #5: Reducing Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides via Low-NOx Burner Technologies [PDF-825KB] (Sept 1996)
  Four CCT Program NOx reduction projects involving the use of LNBs, either alone or in combination with other technologies.

   Combined SO₂/NOx Technologies

• Topical Report #13: Technologies for the Combined Control of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides Emissions from Coal-Fired Boilers [PDF-500KB] (May 1999)
  This report discusses three completed CCT projects involving combined SO₂ and NOx removal processes.
• Topical Report #3: Reduction of NOx and SO₂ using Gas Reburning, Sorbent Injection and Integrated Technologies [PDF-1MB] (Sept 1993)
  Two demonstration projects are discussed in this report, each involving the use of gas reburning in conjunction with a second type of emission control technology.
• Topical Report # 2: Coolside and LIMB: Sorbent Injection Demonstrations Nearing Completion [PDF-3.2MB] (Sept 1990)
  The first full-scale, commercial demonstration of two emerging sorbent injection technologies for controlling sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions from existing coal-fired power plants.

   Mercury Control

• Topical Report #26: Mercury Control Demonstration Projects [PDF-1.2MB] (Feb 2008)
  This report describes three projects having the goal of reducing power plant mercury emissions.

Advanced Electric Power Generation
   Fluidized Bed Combustion

• Topical Report #22: The JEA Large-Scale CFB Combustion Demonstration Project [PDF-2.1MB] (Mar 2003)
  The JEA CFB is testing inexpensive fuels like high-sulfur coal and coal fuel blends at a scale  larger than previously tested. Power production goals on coal and strict emission limits have been achieved.
• Topical Report #1: Tidd: The Nation's First PFBC Combined-cycle Demonstration [PDF-909KB] (Mar 1990)
  Tidd, an electric generating station in Brilliant, Ohio, was the nation's first pressurized fluidized-bed combustor (PFBC) to operate in a true combined cycle mode.

   Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle

• Topical Report #20: The Wabash River Coal Gasification Repowering Project - An Update [PDF-941KB] (Sept 2000)
  In this project, coal is gasified in an oxygen-blown, entrained-flow gasifier with continuous slag removal and a dry particulate removal system.
• Topical Report #19: Tampa Electric Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle Project - An Update [PDF-1.3MB] (July 2000)
  The Texaco coal gasification process is used to fuel a gas turbine generator, whose exhaust is integrated with a heat recovery steam generator and a steam turbine generator.
• Topical Report #8: The Pinon Pine Power Project [PDF-850KB] (Dec 1996)
  Electric power generation technology that combines modern coal gasification with gas turbine and steam power generation technologies at plant near Reno, Nevada.
• Topical Report #7: The Wabash River Coal Gasification Repowering Project [PDF-605KB] (Nov 1996)
  A demonstration of the integration of a Destec gasification process with a gas turbine generator, a heat recovery steam generator, and the refurbished Unit 1 steam generator of the Wabash River Station.
• Topical Report #6: The Tampa Electric Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle Project [PDF-660KB] (Oct 1996)
  Power generation technology that combines modern coal gasification with gas turbine and steam power generation technologies, located near Tampa, Florida.

Coal Processing for Clean Fuels

• Topical Report #21: Coproduction of Power, Fuels and Chemicals [PDF-1.1MB] (Sept 2001)
  A description of the production of synthesis gas (syngas) from coal, the production of electricity from combusting a portion of the syngas and conversion of the remaining syngas to high-value fuels and chemicals.
• Topical Report #11: Commercial-Scale Demonstration of the Liquid Phase Methanol (LPMEOH™) Process [PDF-1.1MB] (Apr 1999)
  The production of methanol from coal-derived synthesis gas using the Liquid Phase Methanol (LPMEOH™) Process will add significant flexibility and dispatch benefits to IGCC electric power plants.
• Topical Report #10: Upgrading of Low-Rank Coals [PDF-786KB] (Aug 1997)
  Two processes to upgrade low-rank coals: the ENCOAL Liquids-from-Coal® process, and Rosebud Syncoal Partnership's Advanced Coal Conversion Process

Industrial Applications

• Topical Report #15: Blast Furnace Granular Coal Injection System Demonstration Project [PDF-944KB] (Nov 1999)
  A commercial demonstration of Blast Furnace Granular Coal Injection technology in which coal is injected directly into an iron-making blast furnace, reducing the need for coke and natural gas.