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Carbon dioxide (CO2) waste gas recovery and comprehensive utilization
In 2019, the concentration of carbon dioxide(CO2) in the world’s atmosphere exceeded 410ppm, while the average before industrialization (Year of 1750) was only 278ppm. Carbon dioxide emissions from factories accounted for 10-30% of the overall emissions. The increasing concentration of CO2 in the air caused the global temperature rise and the frequent occurrence of extreme climate ...
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Drax Cuts Emissions by Over 90% to Become One of Europe`s Lowest Carbon Power Generators
British renewable energy company Drax Group has cut the carbon emissions from its power generation by over 90 per cent in under a decade, becoming one of Europe's lowest carbon intensity power generators and moving it closer to achieving its world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030. Formerly the largest coal power station in Western Europe, Drax has this year ended commercial coal ...
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FutureGen clean-coal project to be shut down after feds withdraw $1B in funding
Coal companies working with the government on the long-planned $1.65 billion FutureGen clean-coal project said Tuesday they have no choice but to shut it down after the Department of Energy suspended the majority of its funding. The department confirmed that it will not provide the $1 billion in stimulus funding it had committed to the project, which aimed to refit a coal-fired power plant near ...
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EC calls for proposals for EUR 4bn worth of energy investments
The European Commission has launched a call for proposals covering key energy infrastructure projects such as energy interconnections, offshore wind energy and carbon capture and storage as part of the implementation of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR), on which the Council and the Parliament recently reached agreement. Project promoters are invited to submit their proposals by ...
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Algae.Tec Announces Commencement of Australian Advanced Biofuels Facility Commissioning
Algae.Tec (ASX:AEB, FWB:GZA:GR, OTCQX:ALGXY), an advanced algae to biofuels company with a high-yield enclosed algae growth and harvesting system today announced commissioning for its showcase biofuels facility Shoalhaven One in Nowra Australia started this week. Algae.Tec Executive Chairman Roger Stroud said the commissioning process was on track for production of algae biomass in early ...
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U.S. revives nation`s first clean coal power project
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Friday plans to restart the country's first clean coal power project, scrapped by the previous Bush administration as too expensive. Under an agreement with the non-profit FutureGen Alliance, the Energy Department will take the first steps toward developing the first U.S. commercial scale-carbon capture and storage project, to be located in Mattoon, ...
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AP Interview: Moniz sees coal`s `significant role`
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Thursday that coal will continue to play a major role in meeting America's energy needs even as the Obama administration seeks to reduce carbon emissions and combat global warming. In an interview with The Associated Press, Moniz dismissed claims from Republicans and some coal-state Democrats that President Barack Obama's climate plan amounted to a war on coal. ...
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To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production
America's newest and cleanest coal-fired power plant comes with a catch: The heat-trapping carbon dioxide removed from its smokestack pollution will help force more oil out of the ground. Some environmentalists complain that it ends up releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is stored underground as waste. It's another example of the Obama administration promoting new, cleaner ...
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DOE Announces $109.5 Million to Support Jobs and Economic Growth in Coal and Power Plant Communities
In connection with a White House report on economic revitalization in coal and power plant communities, the U.S. Department of Energy recently (April 23) announced $109.5 million in funding for projects that directly support job creation in communities impacted by changes in the energy economy. These are the first results of a government-wide initiative launched by President Biden in the first ...
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Siemens gasification technology for Canada’s first low-CO2 power plant
Siemens coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-CO2 IGCC power plant. EPCOR Power Generation is planning to build an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant (IGCC) featuring carbon capture and storage in Genesee near Edmonton, Alberta. The demonstration plant, with an installed capacity of approximately 270 megawatts, is scheduled to come on line in 2015. ...
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APEC Leaders Set Measurable Energy Efficiency Goal
SYDNEY, Australia, September 8, 2007 (ENS) - Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday to adopt a 'long-term aspirational goal' to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region in support of the United Nations' global efforts, announced Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Under the Sydney Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development, the goals are to reduce energy ...
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Regional partner announces plans for carbon storage project using CO2 captured from coal-fired power plant
Southern Company and the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB), one of seven members of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, have announced plans to store carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from an existing coal-fired power plant. The project represents a major step toward demonstrating the viability of integrating carbon ...
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UK first at Longannet as ScottishPower brings clean coal technology one step closer to reality
ScottishPower has flicked the switch on a groundbreaking test project that will see CO2 emissions extracted from Longannet power station – the first time in the UK that they have been captured from a working coal-fired power plant and putting the company on track to deliver a full CCS demonstration project by 2014 in line with government objectives. The prototype, developed by Aker Clean ...
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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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Senate Panel Approves $1 Billion for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
The Senate environment committee has approved a $287 billion, five-year transportation bill that authorizes $1 billion in federal grants to create electric vehicle charging stations along major U.S. highways. The bipartisan bill also includes a provision that would make it easier for electric cooperatives to deploy projects that capture carbon dioxide emissions and turn them into useful products. ...
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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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China leading global efforts on clean coal
China is come a step closer to capturing and storing its carbon emissions with the launch of the GreenGen coal gasification plant in Tianjin, according to a report in Nature. Carbon capture and storage was highlighted by the leaders of the G8 group of nations in 2008, when they called for the development of 20 large-scale projects demonstrating carbon capture technologies by 2010. But with the ...
By SciDev.Net
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China, US seek `clean coal` agreement as industry struggles
U.S. and China officials took a major step Tuesday toward an agreement to advance "clean coal" technologies that purport to reduce the fuel's contribution to climate change - and could offer a potential lifeline for an industry that's seen its fortunes fade. The agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and China's National Energy Administration would allow the two nations to share their ...
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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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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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