ENERGY SOURCES PART B-ECONOMICS PLANNING AND POLICY, cilt.5, sa.3, ss.261-271, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
This article is the first part of a study dealing with current and prospective clean coal technologies. For this purpose, the importance of coal utilization in electricity production and the importance of clean coal technologies (CCTs) for the minimization of the environmental impacts of coal-fired power generation are discussed as an introduction to the subject. The article includes an extensive presentation about the source and formation mechanisms of the major pollutants and their control strategies.