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FINNEY COUNTY, KS--A combination of high-tech combustion modifications and sophisticated control systems will be tested on a Kansas coal-fired power plant as part of the federal government's efforts to show how new technology can reduce air emissions and reduce costs for ratepayers.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Sunflower Electric Power Corp. have signed an agreement to use the utility's Holcomb Station power plant in Finney County, KS. to field test an "integrated combustion optimization system"--an array of state-of-the-art sensors, controls, and clean-burning combustion modifications, all linked by sophisticated "neural network" software.

The pollution reducing potential of the integrated system is expected to rival other devices now being installed on other coal-burning power plants, but overall costs are likely to be only half as ...

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