English Abstract To eliminate bottlenecks and impediments in the fields
of technology and environmental hygiene for the large-scale reintroduction
of coal into the Dutch energy economy, the National Coal Research Programme
(NOK) was carried out on behalf of the Minister of Economic Affairs. As
part of this programme, an investigation was conducted into "Air Pollution
as a result of the Emission from Coal-fired power stations" (LUK), in which
the ECN, the KEMA, the RIVM, the TNO and the UvA collaborated. The
objective of this research was to determine the consequences of a possible
large-scale reintroduction of coal on the concentrations and depositions of
air-polluting substances in the Netherlands. The study to be reported here
was confined to the reintroduction of coal as a fuel for electricity power
stations.