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Now a days, throughout the world Pakistan is the only country having less than 1% electricity production from coal despite of the fact that we've ranked 7th in the world 7th for coal reserves. The total coal reserves of #Pakistan is estimated to be about 186bn tons
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And the estimated annual coal consumption is about 5800 million tons, of which major chunk (75%) is used for electricity production. This means that the coal reserves of only Pakistan is solely enough for the world for about 30-35 years.
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The indiginous coal are widely used for electricity production because of their low cost and wide reserves. If we look into world's energy production, USA and other western countries are producing more than 40 wt% and China and India are producing greater than 70 wt% of
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their power generation from coal which is too high against ours one. All we need are the well- developed upgradation techniques to remove the unwanted impurities in order to increase the net calorific value.
Because the indiginous coal is a major primary source of
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many air pollutants including particulate matter, mercury and other gaseous pollutants like SOx, NOx, COx etc which leads to increase global warming and green house gases. Control of these air pollutants from the coal combustion is of great importance to environment and
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human health. Because the poor conversion of coal to energy means wastes of earth's resources, as well as production of more waste often leads to lesser efficiency and higher content of carbon in ash.
Besides that recent researches shows that the exposure to fine particulate
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matter pollution contributed to 3.2 million of premature deaths in the world (mainly caused by cardiovascular and lung cancer diseases).
This shows a vital study of how to handle the environmental concerns as constant evaluation of things and safety is the prior concern.
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