Fuel Switching

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-011810

1. A precombustion process whereby a low-sulfur coal is used in place of a higher sulfur coal in a power plant to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.

2. Illegally using leaded gasoline in a motor vehicle designed to use only unleaded.

3. In general, this is substituting one type of fuel for another. In the climate-change discussion it is implicit that the substituted fuel produces lower carbon emissions per unit energy produced than the original fuel, e.g., natural gas for coal.

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-ENV-011810
Field	Environment
Subject	Climate change
References	Terms of Environment; Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable Glossary; Glossary of Climate Change Terms

Record as JSON

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}

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