What is the environmental impact of industrial gasification in terms of solid waste, mercury emissions and CO2 emissions?
Compared with combustion-based power generation facilities, industrial gasification plants have demonstrated significantly reduced solid waste and less potential to leach toxic substances into soil and groundwater. Mercury emissions at gasification-based facilities can also be far lower than their combustion-based counterparts. Industrial gasification also has the potential to dramatically limit the amount of CO2 its facilities emit into the atmosphere using carbon capture and sequestration technology. While sequestration is not in wide use at present, industrial gasification plants are inherently designed to capture CO2 and readily enable its sequestration.
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