carbon capture and sequestration News
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Didier Houssin returns to IEA as director of sustainable energy policy and technology
Didier Houssin took charge this week as the International Energy Agency's<http://www.iea.org/> new Director of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology (SPT), bringing his expertise from five years as chief of Energy Markets and Security at the IEA. In his new role, Mr. Houssin is responsible for all aspects of energy sustainability, such as energy efficiency policy, energy technology ...
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EPA’s Reproposed Carbon Limits Include Separate Standards for Coal, Gas Units
The Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to publish reproposed carbon dioxide limits for new power plants Jan. 8, setting separate standards for coal-fired and natural gas-fired generating units. The EPA released the proposal Sept. 20, following a schedule President Barack Obama laid out, but the agency waited nearly four months to publish the rule in the Federal Register. The new plant ...
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DOE Renews Two Energy Frontier Research Centers at MIT
Original story at MIT News The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that two MIT-led Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) received funding to continue their cutting-edge research. The centers are among 32 projects that were competitively selected from more than 200 proposals as part of a second round of funding for the program. The EFRC program aims to accelerate transformative ...
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DOE to establish two Energy Frontier Research Centers at MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be home to two of 46 new multimillion-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced this week by the White House, in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. The EFRCs, which will pursue advanced scientific research on energy, are being established by the U.S. ...
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Is Obama`s energy plan change we can believe in?
On August 4th the Barack Obama Presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the US energy system. In the words of Obama supporter and climate blogger and author Joe Romm, it was 'easily the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee of either party.' The critical question, however, is this: is it an energy plan that will actually do the job of giving US leadership to ...
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Virent’s bio-based fuel used in historic commercial passenger flight using 100% sustainable aviation fuel
Virent contributed to an aviation industry first, as United Airlines flew an aircraft full of passengers using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in one engine and petroleum-based jet fuel in the other. Virent, a Marathon Petroleum Corp. subsidiary, used its BioForm® process to produce synthesized aromatic kerosene (SAK) – a critical component that made the 100% SAF possible. ...
By Virent
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Global coal demand to reach 9 billion tonnes per year by 2019
Global demand for coal over the next five years will continue marching higher, breaking the 9-billion-tonne level by 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its annual Medium-Term Coal Market Report released today. The report notes that despite China’s efforts to moderate its coal consumption, it will still account for three-fifths of demand growth during the outlook period. ...
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Coal`s share of global energy mix to continue rising, with coal closing in on oil as world`s top energy source by 2017
Coal's share of the global energy mix continues to rise, and by 2017 coal will come close to surpassing oil as the world's top energy source, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today as it released its annual Medium-Term Coal Market Report (MCMR). Although the growth rate of coal slows from the breakneck pace of the last decade, global coal consumption by 2017 stands at 4.32 billion ...
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AECOM and FMIS partner to create an energy hub for environment and water
AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, has formed a partnership with FMIS (Fort McKay Industrial Solutions) to create an energy hub for engineering, environment, and water solutions in Northern Alberta. The agreement, which is already in effect, will provide a centralized source for energy operations within the region and will advance leading edge solutions to ...
By AECOM
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Carbon capture hopes set in stone
Scientists in Iceland have concrete evidence that carbon capture and sequestration can be made to work. They have buried carbon dioxide in the rocks and watched it turn to stone. There is no guarantee that what works on a small scale at a geothermal plant in south-west Iceland could be practical or economical for the world’s giant fossil fuel power plants. But the study, backed by US ...
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Halving Global Carbon Emissions by 2040 Within Reach
Governments, investors and businesses must seize the opportunity to halve global carbon emissions by 2040 while ensuring economic development and energy access for all, but they must act now to accelerate clean electrification, decarbonization beyond power and energy productivity improvement, says the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC). The ETC recently (4/25) launched its "Better energy, ...
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GE Releases Position on Climate Change: Calls for Accelerated Deployment of Renewables & Gas Power To Drive Impactful, Faster Decarbonization
Building on its commitment to carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030 and announced intention to exit the new-build coal power market, GE recently (Dec 15) shared its position that the accelerated and strategic deployment of both renewable energy and gas power can make substantial progress in combatting climate change in the near-term, while securing a path to a lower-carbon emitting world in ...
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Market Research Predicts Clean Coal Technologies at $85 Billion by 2020
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Clean Coal Technologies Markets and Trends Worldwide, 2nd Edition" to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/SBI-v775/Clean-Coal-Technologies-Trends-Worldwide-6447642/ Coal is expected to continue to be a dominant fuel in power generation due to its low cost and ...
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Wyoming Governor Blasts EPA`s Coal Plant Proposal
Gov. Matt Mead of Wyoming, the nation's leading coal-producing state, is calling on the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a proposal to require new coal-fired power plants to employ carbon-capture technology. EPA administrator Gina McCarthy proposed last fall to require new coal-fired power plants to employ carbon capture and sequestration technology, a process that ...
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World`s First Integrated CCS of Coal-fired Power Plant Emissions Begins
A carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) recovered from emissions from a coal-fired power generation plant. The event marks an important milestone in the world's first integrated CCS project for flue gas ...
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Energy needs will drive the industrial valve market over $100 billion in revenues by 2030
The demand for industrial valves will expand from its present level of just under $50 billion/yr to over $100 billion/yr by 2030. The main driver will be the energy needs of the developing countries. Energy already accounts for over 40 percent of valve demand. Power, refining, and oil and gas are all going to expand at a rate faster than average GDP during the next two decades. These are the ...
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MHI Awarded Concept Study of 3,400ton/day CO2 Recovery Facility
- One of World's Largest Recovery Plants for CHP Power Station - Tokyo, Oct 17, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has been awarded by Statoil, an international energy company with headquarters in Norway, to undertake a concept study for a technology qualification program (TQP) for one of the world's largest carbon dioxide (CO2) capture facilities. The approximately ...
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New York governor encourages unique clean coal plant
New York Governor David Paterson Tuesday announced that the state would offer up to US$6 million in financial support for construction of a coal-fired power demonstration plant in Jamestown that will be the first of its kind in the world. The Jamestown coal plant would burn coal in pure oxygen instead of air. This process leaves water and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, which can be ...
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Summit Power & Linde Join Forces to Develop Projects Deploying Carbon Capture from Natural Gas
Summit Power Group, a Seattle-based developer of low-carbon power projects, and the technology company The Linde Group today announced they have teamed up to develop commercial-scale natural gas-fired power plants that will capture up to ninety percent (90%) of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that would otherwise have been emitted. The new power plants will combine well-established and commercially ...
By Linde Group
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Figuring out where to put the carbon
To meet our immediate energy needs without exacerbating climate change, most experts agree, we’ll need to find a way to store the carbon dioxide given off by the combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. But no full-scale storage systems exist, and the plans to create them have many unknowns. New projects at MIT could help to fill that information gap. At the American Geophysical Union’s fall ...
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