carbon capture system News
-
An industry first: SNC-Lavalin successfully integrates a commercial post-combustion CCUS system into a coal-fired power plant
SaskPower recently set a precedent when it fired up a commercial-grade carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) system at its Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan. It’s the first time that a CCUS system of this size has ever been retrofitted into a coal-fired plant anywhere in the world. SNC-Lavalin was proud to provide complete EPC and training services for the project’s ...
By SNC-Lavalin
-
EPA`s Carbon Limits for New Power Plants Must Be ‘Grounded in Reality,` Industry Says
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed carbon dioxide emissions limits for new fossil fuel-fired power plants should be reworked to be “grounded in reality,” an industry group said May 12. The proposed rule, formally issued in January, set separate standards for coal-fired and natural gas-fired generating units. The proposed performance standard for new coal-fired units would ...
-
Showcase
HuaDe Hydrogen Energy Shown at 2022 Bremen Hydrogen Technology Expo & Carbon Capture Technology Expo
Hydrogen Technology Expo & Carbon Capture Technology Expo was held in Bremen, Germany from October 19th to 20th, 2022. Hydrogen Technology Expo &Carbon Capture Technology Expo in Bremen, Germany is an important conference and exhibition in Europe dedicated to discussing advanced technologies.Involving the development of hydrogen energy and fuel cell industries, the exhibition brings ...
-
Swansea University Researchers Develop One-Step Method for Producing Porous Carbon Spheres
Researchers at Swansea University’s Energy Safety Research Institute have developed a new method that produces spheres that have strong capacity for carbon capture and work at a large scale. Described as “[a] fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres, which are a vital component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable ...
-
A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than conventional natural-gas plants, and even to coal-burning plants. But that can only come about if and when a price is set on the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — a step the U.S. ...
-
Biden Administration Makes $11 Billion Investment to Advance Clean Energy Across Rural America
The U.S. this week (May 16) announced the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities that will help rural energy and utility providers bring affordable, reliable clean energy to their communities across the country. This represents the single largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in ...
-
Cranfield Opens New Clean Energy Research Centre
Cranfield University’s new £2 million high-tech energy laboratory was officially opened on Tuesday by Jonathan Holyoak, Head of Policy for the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, on behalf of Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Ministers. The Energy Technology Laboratory houses a range of near industrial-scale equipment for research and development of clean and renewable ...
-
EC and World Energy Council discuss the challenges of a sustainable energy future
The European Commission and the World Energy Council (WEC) held a joint seminar today, featuring topics ranging from Europe's vulnerability in terms of security of energy supply to new technologies, which will help ensure a sustainable energy environment. 'Security of energy supply and sustainability go hand in hand and figure prominently on the EU's energy agenda. But facing these challenges ...
-
Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation - Carbon Trust response
Carbon Trust response to the Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation, which sets out support levels for renewable electricity technologies for the period 2013 to 2017 James Wilde, Director of Innovation and Policy at the Carbon Trust said: "The Government's decision to reduce the support provided to onshore wind by 10% is sensible as it is based upon evidence of costs falling. Given the ...
By Carbon Trust
-
Whitfield/Manchin Bill Would Block EPA Safeguards Against Carbon Pollution
Legislation sponsored by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVA) would block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from issuing safeguards to protect the public from carbon pollution, and the Natural Resources Defense Council strongly opposes it, David Hawkins, NRDC’s director of climate programs, said today in prepared congressional testimony. The proposal would ...
-
Scottish sandstone rocks could hold up to 100 years of carbon emissions
New scientist report estimates the Captain sandstone could store carbon emissions from power stations in Scotland using CCS technology New report found sandstone rocks under the North Sea could hold up to a century's worth of carbon emissions from Scotland’s power industry and create tens of thousands of new jobs. The study has estimated that the rock formation, known as Captain ...
By Vital Energi
-
Ex-Energy chief Chu joins carbon capture company
Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu is joining the board of directors of a Canadian company that says it has a cost-effective way to capture and reuse carbon dioxide from power plants fired by coal and natural gas. Vancouver-based Inventys Thermal Technologies says it has developed a process that it says uses less energy than conventional carbon capture techniques and is less expensive. A ...
-
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Coal-Fired Plants - Opportunity Assessment and Key Country Analysis to 2025
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Coal-Fired Plants - Opportunity Assessment and Key Country Analysis to 2025 ...
By ReportLinker
-
Can capturing carbon become a reality?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is both hailed as a “silver bullet” for the coal industry, and reviled as a pipe dream. The reality is that the US needs CCS, and a comprehensive policy framework for rapid development and deployment. Undoubtedly, CCS has many detractors. Many are calling for investment in wind, solar and other renewable energies rather than in capture technologies. Renewable ...
-
Carbon capture and storage needed for new coal-fired power stations
The Environment Agency has recommended that no new coal-fired power stations should be built unless they can capture and store carbon emissions. In its response to the Government’s consultation on carbon capture and storage, the Environment Agency called for faster progress on proving carbon capture and storage technology on a commercial scale. Lord Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment ...
-
MEPs vote to equip power plants to store CO2 underground
The European Parliament's Environment Committee wants all larger power stations built from 2015 onwards to be equipped with the new carbon capture and storage technology (CCS), which stores CO2 emissions permanently underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, it said in a co-decision vote on Tuesday. MEPs had already proposed financing demonstration projects through the revised ...
-
Vattenfall inaugurates world`s first pilot for a coal-fired power plant with CO2 capture
Germany’s Secretary of the Chancellery, Thomas de Maizière, and Prime Minister of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck, together with Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg Tuesday officially launched the commencement of operations at Vattenfall’s pilot unit for a coal-fired power plant with CO2 capture, the world's first of its kind. The pilot unit, which has a thermal ...
-
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corporation to Hold Joint Exhibition in Japan Pavilion at Rio+20
Introducing the Two Companies' Diverse Operations and Products Tokyo, June 12, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) will hold a joint exhibition introducing their diverse business operations and products at the Japan Pavilion, a side event of Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development(1) getting under way in Rio de ...
-
Energy firms join CO2 research programme
The international energy companies E.ON, ScottishPower and Statkraft have underlined their commitment to meeting the climate challenges by joining SOLVit - a pioneering R&D programme into carbon capture technology, led by Aker Clean Carbon, the Norwegian CO2 technology company. The R&D institute SINTEF and the university NTNU are selected research partners. “We are very pleased that some ...
-
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 ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you