Mining and Metallurgy Engineering Bor (Jan 2019)
Potentiality of the raw material coal base from the Gacko deposit in a function of providing the energy fuel for strategic planning of the TPP Gacko 2
Abstract
Coal resources, in addition to oil, gas and uranium as a non-renewable and hydropotential as a renewable energy source, represent the most significant part of energy potential and an energy source of strategic importance on the Republic of Srpska. The modern pace of technological and industrial development causes a permanent increase in coal exploitation and consumption. The use of this resource must be planned and extremely rational. Coal deposits in the Republc Srpska are differed in the structure and quantities of reserves, geological and technical-economic conditions of exploitation and quality. Geological reserves of the Gacko coal deposit amount to 330 Mt. According to the current geological documentation, the balance reserves are ≈182 Mt, with an energy potential of 545 TWh. According to the processed performance indicators, the balance and mineable reserves of coal enable a long-term supply of fuel for the current and future thermal power plant under the favorable economic conditions. In order to provide the required amount of energy for operation the existing and "new" thermal power plant in Gacko, it is necessary to carry out the geological explorations in order to reproduce the mineral and raw material base. The duty of every company engaged in exploitation the coal energy resources is a continuous performance of geological explorations in order to find the new ones or transfer the existing reserves into a higher category. The future development and level of coal production from the Gacko deposit will mostly depend on the electricity production in the Gacko Thermal Power Plant. It would certainly strive for fulfillment the basic conditions, i.e. the cost of coal heat utilization, as in many other countries, be at least approximately competitive with the cost of heat from the other primary energy sources (hydro sources, imported energy, etc.).In order that the Gacko non-renewable energy resource would survive and evolve in a particular environment, it must have a clearly defined purpose of existence. This purpose of existence is primarily reduced to a multiphase process of providing and using a non-renewable energy resource in accordance with the realistic natural, economic and ecological opportunities, in relation to which there are the expressed needs in a wider or narrower environment.
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