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ID
971293
Banca
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão
MCT
Ano
2012
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

     A pair of new technologies could reduce the cost of capturing carbon dioxide from coal plants and help utilities comply with existing and proposed environmental regulations, including requirements to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Both involve burning coal in the presence of pure oxygen rather than air, which is mostly nitrogen. The basic idea of burning fossil fuels in pure oxygen is not new. The drawback is that it is more expensive than conventional coal plant technology, because it requires additional equipment to separate oxygen and nitrogen. The new technologies attempt to offset at least some of this cost by improving efficiency and reducing capital costs in other areas of a coal plant.
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According to the text, it can be concluded that



conventional coal plants are not equipped to separate oxygen from nitrogen.

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  • Spot on- As the main point of the article is to come up with a solution to halt pollution issuing from coal plants, we gather that they don't have fittings to comply with such an environmental concern.

    correto- se a ideia é que usinas usem essa tecnologia para separar nitrogenio do oxigenio, é porque elas ainda nao a implementaram.