Where do these figures come from? I calculate 23 to 25 thousand ton/day.
You are correct and I was in error.
1600 MW = 1,600,000 KW
1,600,000 Kw * 24 hrs./day = 38,000,000 Kw/hr/day)
38,000,000 Kw/hr/day * 3412 Btu/(Kw/hr) = 130,000,000,000 Btu/day
Western low sulfur coal about 11,000 Btu/lb at 33% efficiency is 3,600 output/11,000 input.
(130,000,000,000 Btu/day)/(3600 Btu/lb) = 36,000,000 lb./day
36,000,000 lb/day * ton/2000lb = 18,000 tons per day. 12.5 tons per minute.
Dang. Was working from memory using info I remember from a different plant. I must have confused pulverizer capacity with full load coal usage. I had better use a pencil, paper and calculator instead of just a calculator these days!
An excuse! An excuse! Quick, blame someone else! At least blame it on coefficient confusion!
Your 25% efficiency is likely more accurate than 33% since you seem to be working from coal to MW/hrs metered into the grid and I was using only coal to generator output.