Power Plants

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Boron and strontium isotopic characterization of coal combustion residuals: validation of new environmental tracers. 
  • Combustion sources of particles. 1. Health relevance and source signatures. 
  • Cost of wind energy: comparing distant wind resources to local resources in the midwestern United States. 
  • Dam controversy: Remaking the Mekong. 
  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. 
  • Demographic analysis and modeling of human populations exposed to ionizing radiation. 
  • Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments. 
  • Economic and environmental costs of regulatory uncertainty for coal-fired power plants. 
  • Effects of Environmental Temperature Change on the Efficiency of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants. 
  • Effects of future infrastructure development on threat status and occurrence of Amazonian birds. 
  • Environmental implications of United States coal exports: a comparative life cycle assessment of future power system scenarios. 
  • Fuel prices, emission standards, and generation costs for coal vs natural gas power plants. 
  • Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in Coals and Coal Combustion Residuals in the United States. 
  • One-time screening to define the problem: Legionella exposure in an electric power company. 
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of coal fly ash: analysis by gas-liquid chromatography using nematic liquid crystals. 
  • Reducing the energy penalty costs of postcombustion CCS systems with amine-storage. 
  • Residential Solar PV Systems in the Carolinas: Opportunities and Outcomes. 
  • Response to Comment on "Effects of Environmental Temperature Change on the Efficiency of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants". 
  • Response to comment on "Environmental implications of United States coal exports: a comparative life cycle assessment of future power system scenarios". 
  • Response to comment on “Environmental implications of united states coal exports: a comparative life cycle assessment of future power system scenarios”. 
  • Should a coal-fired power plant be replaced or retrofitted? 
  • Single-source impact analysis using three-dimensional air quality models. 
  • The Health Impacts of Environmental Policy: The North Carolina Clean Smokestacks Act. 
  • The Impact of Coal-Powered Electrical Plants and Coal Ash Impoundments on the Health of Residential Communities. 
  • The impact of coal combustion residue effluent on water resources: a North Carolina example. 
  • The impacts of wind power integration on sub-daily variation in river flows downstream of hydroelectric dams. 
  • The risk of radiation-induced cerebrovascular disease in Chernobyl emergency workers. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Pratson, Lincoln F., Gendell Family Professor of Energy and Environment, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Vengosh, Avner, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University Energy Initiative