Ministries want to recycle coal power waste

Last update 15:47 | 06/10/2017

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction hold a conference about recycling ash and slag waste from coal power plants as construction materials for the Mekong Delta on October 3.

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Mai Xanh Company recycle waste as construction materials.

Vietnam has 21 coal power plants and it will have 57 plants by 2030 in accordance with the electric planning approved by the prime minister on March 18, 2016. Tiếp tục đọc “Ministries want to recycle coal power waste”

Experts fear as coal ash, slag mounting in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

The lack of an effective treatment process has resulted in mountains of the coal-fired electric power plants’ byproducts collecting in the delta

By Tuoi Tre News

October 4, 2017, 13:59 GMT+7

​Experts fear as coal ash, slag mounting in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
The land where coal ash is dumped at a coal-fired power plant in south-central Vietnam.
Huge mountains of coal ash are looming large in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, experts said at a conference on Tuesday.

Most coal-fired electric power plants produce coal ash in the form of fly and bottom ash, left after coal is combusted.

During the coal-burning process, fine powdery fly ash is carried up the smoke stack, while the coarser bottom ash, also known as slag, falls to the bottom. Tiếp tục đọc “Experts fear as coal ash, slag mounting in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta”