carbon capture and storage News
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CCS crucial for mitigating climate change
Report to the Muskoka G8 Leaders’ Summit says Carbon Capture and Storage crucial for mitigating climate change. Heightened government-industry cooperation is essential to achieve G8 ...
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Carbon capture and storage: climate impacts
One proposal for meeting targets for the reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is to capture and store CO2 that is emitted by fossil fuel burning power stations. In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could help mitigate against climate change, especially in the short term. Using CCS, CO2 emitted from energy or industrial plants could be ...
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Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage receives £150k
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise have each committed £50,000 to support the UK’s largest research, industry and government partnership in carbon capture, use and storage. Established with SFC funding in 2005, Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS) is a research and knowledge exchange partnership between Heriot-Watt University, the ...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Market to gain prominence with the rising concerns over environmental degradation
Growing demand for carbon technologies to meet 20C scenario along with strict government regulations to curb carbon footprint will drive the carbon capture and storage market size. Product ability to reduce carbon emission by 85% to 90% makes its adoption preferable over other available alternates. According to New Source Performance Standards in the U.S., the new coal fired plant can emit 1400 ...
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EC preparing energy and climate change package for adoption in late January
Commissioner Andris Piebalgs visited Nuon's gasification power plant 'Willem-Alexander' in Buggenum, Netherlands. The Commissioner was accompanied by Lambert van Nistelrooij, Member of the European Parliament. The visit takes place as the Commission is preparing a package of proposals on energy and climate change for adoption later this month. In addition to coal, the Buggenum plant co-fires ...
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South Africa sets its sights on carbon capture
An atlas of potential underground storage sites for carbon dioxide emissions will be compiled for South Africa as part of a plan to be using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology by 2020. The atlas is being compiled by the Council for Geoscience and the Petroleum Agency of South Africa with funding from the South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI) and a range of energy ...
By SciDev.Net
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Global Carbon Capture and Storage Planned Installed Capacity to Hit 10,000 Megawatts in 2020
Carbon capture and storage has potential to assume a core role in the energy mix of many nations. Countries like the United Kingdom are already planning and implementing new projects such as an online database to gauge how much offshore carbon dioxide storage space is realistically available. In Australia, the $208 millionCallide Oxyfuel Project has entered the demonstration phase and marks the ...
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Australia, ADB setup AUS$21.5m CCS fund
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Australia, through its Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, have signed a trust fund agreement to support the capture and storage of rising levels of carbon emissions in Asia. Under the agreement, Australia is supplying a A$21.5 million grant for the Carbon Capture and Storage Fund. The fund will support geological investigations ...
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Eileen Claussen`s Statement on The Expanding Carbon Capture Through Enhanced Oil Recovery Act of 2014
We applaud Sen. Jay Rockefeller for introducing legislation to advance carbon capture and storage (CCS). The Expanding Carbon Capture Through Enhanced Oil Recovery Act of 2014 would reform and expand an existing tax credit to encourage the use of carbon dioxide captured from power plants and industrial facilities in enhancing production from existing oil fields. Carbon capture and storage is a ...
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Berkeley Lab and China’s Peking University forge ties on carbon capture and storage research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and China’s Peking University agreed on Nov. 12 to jointly pursue the development of safe and effective carbon capture and storage techniques. This technology holds strong promise to help mitigate climate change by capturing carbon dioxide from major sources, such as coal-burning power plants, and injecting it deep underground for permanent storage. A ...
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International environment/industry alliance underpins Australian carbon capture program
The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC), which is undertaking Australia’s first carbon storage project, yesterday welcomed the proposal of a National Carbon Capture and Storage Taskforce aimed at accelerating the adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. The *CO2CRC Chief Executive, Dr Peter Cook, said he looked forward to the acceleration of ...
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ADM Begins Operations for Second Carbon Capture and Storage Project
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) recently announced that the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project, a partnership to safely and permanently store more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, has begun operations. "2017 is a watershed year for carbon capture in the United States. On the heels of the successful opening of Petra Nova in Texas, the Illinois ...
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Drax to pilot more pioneering new carbon capture technology
Renewable energy pioneer Drax has partnered with the University of Nottingham and Promethean Particles to trial a pioneering new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) process at its North Yorkshire power station. ...
By Drax Group
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Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage: A key enabler of carbon neutrality by 2050
The EU bioenergy sector is at the edge of technological innovations providing unique and sizeable solutions at a time of climate emergency. Drastic reduction of emissions is required, but it is not enough – there is an increasing need to capture carbon back from the atmosphere. Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) can achieve negative emissions by storing the CO2 resulting from the ...
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Energy Department advances carbon capture and storage research on two fronts
Forty-three research projects that will advance carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies while providing graduate and undergraduate student training opportunities at universities across the country will be supported by $12.7 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding announced today. Spread over three years, the regional sequestration training projects and funding will be managed by the ...
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Low carbon revolution is welcomed although some elements may be unsustainable
The energy policy statement from the Welsh Assembly Government has been welcomed as “extremely positive” by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). But CAT points out that there are some elements of the report that may be unsustainable. The report, Energy Policy Statement: Low Carbon Revolution, which was launched on 15 March, states that Wales has the potential to generate twice the ...
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Teesside offered £60m `green` rescue package
Teesside has been offered a £60 million rescue package to invest in ‘green’ manufacturing in the wake of the Corus steelworks closure. The funding is expected to create 3,000 new jobs in the short to medium-term and sustain 10,000 jobs long term. The package aims to sure-up the region’s future by helping it move to low carbon and advanced manufacturing. Some £30m will be spent on redeveloping ...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Hopes Rise Again
Carbon capture and storage, if it proved possible, would help to make the main greenhouse gas harmless. American scientists say they are making progress. Two groups of US scientists are exploring new ways of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. One technology mimics the tree by using artificial photosynthesis. The other exploits a membrane that is a thousand times more efficient than ...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Can Help Power Plants Reduce Carbon Pollution
Carbon capture and storage technology has a proven track record and is ready to be deployed to help new power plants meet proposed federal standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution, a Natural Resources Defense Council climate expert told Congress on Wednesday. “All aspects of…carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems have been demonstrated at commercial scale industrial ...
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Amine chemistry modelling in ADMS for carbon capture and storage
CERC are a partner in this ground-breaking SCOPE project (Sustainable OPEration of post-combustion Capture plants) to accelerate large scale CO2-capture projects by providing critical data, methodologies and tools, essential for plant owners and regulators engaged in managing emissions and permitting processes. A goal is to establish methods and rules for risk assessment of flue gas emissions ...
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