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Problem 2: Remember effic or other air pollution controls, eff removed'/'mass of pollutant going in". Coal can have different energy intensities and is ciency is power out/energy in for power plants. For Scrubbers controls, efficiency refers to the percentage of "mass of pollutant rated in terms of the BTUs of heat it releases per lb of coal. Consider a new 38 percent efficient 600-MW power plant burning 9,000 BTU coal containing 1 percent sulfur (by mass). If a 70 percent efficient scrubber is used, what would be the emission rate of sulfur be (Ib/hr)?

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