carbon dioxide capture efficiency News
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New Sky Wins $500,000 CO2 Capture & Utilization Grant from CCEMC
On April 15th, 2014 New Sky was selected as a finalist in the Climate Change & Emissions Management Corporation Grand Challenge. The CCEMC Grand Challenge is an Alberta-based $35M grant program that funds important emerging technologies to capture and utilize carbon dioxide. As a Grand Challenge finalist New Sky will receive $500K over the next two years to fund development of its innovative ...
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New recovery act funding boosts industrial carbon capture and storage research and development
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of 22 projects that will accelerate carbon capture and storage research and development for industrial sources. Funded with more than US$575 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, these R&D projects complement the industrial demonstration projects already being funded through the Recovery Act. Together, these ...
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Secretary Chu announces US$3bn investment for carbon capture and sequestration
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the selection of three new projects with a value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. Secretary Chu made today’s announcement on a conference call with West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, Senator Jay Rockefeller, and President of American Electric Power ...
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ZEG Power and CCB enters into strategic cooperation to establish cost efficient, clean hydrogen production from gas at Kollsnes
The target is to establish significant capacity for clean hydrogen production from gas at Kollsnes, enabled by ZEG Power’s innovative ZEG-H2 plants, based on an enhanced reforming technology with integrated CO2 capture. “We are very happy to initiate this exciting project together with ZEG Power”, says CEO Øyvind A Langedal at CCB. “CCB sees clear synergies between ...
By ZEG Power AS
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German eco-prize ‘benefits developing world researchers’
A video released this week details a two-week tour of Germany’s science institutions by 25 young eco-researchers from around the world who won the latest Green Talents competition run by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Their work focuses on developing innovative, interdisciplinary solutions to challenges in the environment and sustainable development, such as ...
By SciDev.Net
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ADI 2045TI Online Analyzer improves scrubbing process in carbon capture Plants
The most commonly used process for post-combustion CO2capture is amine-based scrubbing. Metrohm Applikon offers a fully automated solution for the online monitoring of this process in order to optimize the amine activity, measure the efficiency of the CO2 capture, and thus help to reduce overall costs. More information is available from the Process Application Note AN-PAN-1003. In the ...
By Metrohm AG
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Utility CO2 mitigation markets will grow at double-digit rates
Operators of coal-fired power plants are committing billions of dollars in expenditures to reduce the quantities of CO2 per kilowatt of power produced. These expenditures are accelerating at double-digit rates. Forecasts of the revenues for CO2 capture, efficiency improvements and research are provided in the new Utility CO2 Mitigation Markets published online by the McIlvaine Company. The ...
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ITRI Introduces HECLOT, the First Affordable and Energy-Efficient Solution to Achieve a CO2 Capture Rate of Up-to-90 Percent
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading, high-tech applied research institutions, introduces High Efficiency Calcium Looping Technology (HECLOT), a calcium looping technology developed to reduce carbon emissions from fossil power plants. It is the first affordable and energy-efficient solution to achieve a CO2 capture rate of up-to-90 ...
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SwRI Receives U.S. DOE Award to Advance Clean Coal Technology
Southwest Research Institute and industry collaborator Thar Energy LLC have received $700,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to demonstrate a novel, supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle using pressurized oxy-combustion, a process that uses pure oxygen instead of air as the primary oxidant. The contract award is one of eight given by DOE to ...
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ADI 2045TI Online Analyzer Improves Scrubbing Process in Carbon Capture Plants
The most commonly used process for post-combustion CO2 capture is amine-based scrubbing. Metrohm Applikon offers a fully automated solution for the online monitoring of this process in order to optimize the amine activity, measure the efficiency of the CO2 capture, and thus help reducing overall costs. More information is available from www.metrohm-applikon.com In the scrubbing process, a ...
By Metrohm AG
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DOE issues amended funding opportunity announcement for third round of clean coal power initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued an amendment to the Funding Opportunity Announcement for Round 3 of the Clean Coal Power Initiative. The amendment, which was issued on June 9, 2009, incorporates special provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. DOE anticipates making multiple awards under this FOA and may be able to provide up to $1.4 billion to be distributed ...
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