Coal upgrading technology upgraded brown coal can compete in the export market at comparable prices to black coal. With significant levels of brown coal mining occurring around the world, and mining levels increasing, the need for coal upgrading technologies has become more apparent. the technologies will help to address global environmental concern of rising emissions from the burning of brown coal and provide alternative fuel options to rapidly emerging economies such as Vietnam that face difficulty competing for black coal with China, India, Japan and other nations. Because of inherent high moisture content, all lignites need to be dried prior to combustion. Depending
A. B. Brown Generating Station A. B. Brown Generating Station The A. B. Brown Generating Station is a four-unit, 700 megawatt (MW) power plant, located on the northern bank of Ohio River, east of Mount Vernon, Indiana and southwest of Evansville, Indiana just west of the Posey-Vanderburgh County Line. Each of the two coal-fired units has a name-plate capacity of 265.2 MW. Bituminous coal is used as a primary fuel type, which can be substituted for natural gas. There are also two gas turbine units, 88.2 MW of nameplate capacity each. The facility is owned by Vectren (formerly Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company). In