
1 Yiguo Li1 and Kwang Y. Lee2∗ This article provides an overview of fossil-fuel power plant (FFPP) configura-tion both the conventional and the advanced technologies. First there are pulverisers to mill the coal to a fine powder for burning in a combustion chamber of the boiler. The heat produced from the burning of the coal generates steam at high temperature and pressure.• Emissions from coal-based power generation can be very low; and with CO 2 capture