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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Algenol Biofuels Opens State-of-the-Art Labs in Lee County, Florida
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack and Lee County Commissioners Tammy Hall and Ray Judah join in celebrating new advanced research labs and integrated biorefinery that will diversify local economy and create clean energy jobs FORT MYERS, FL - Algenol Biofuels Inc. celebrated the opening of its new state-of-the-art biofuels and green chemistry lab and R&D facility today in Fort Myers, Fla. The 40,000 ...
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Sustainability and CO2 International Experts Mark 10th Year of Air Products' MATGAS R&D Joint Venture in Barcelona
Air Products (NYSE: APD) is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its joint venture MATGAS, a strategic alliance between Carburos Metalicos -- part of the Air Products Group, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). To mark the event, MATGAS held an International Symposium on Energy, Sustainability and the Environment on June 1st and 2nd at ...
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E.ON and Siemens switch on pilot CO2 capture facility at the Staudinger coal-fired power plant
E.ON and Siemens are starting up a pilot CO2 capture plant at the E.ON power plant Staudinger in Grosskrotzenburg near Hanau. The two companies are thus pushing further ahead with the development of a process geared toward climate-friendly coal-based power generation. A lab-proven process is to be employed under real operating conditions at the power plant’s hard-coal-fired Staudinger Unit 5. The ...
By E.ON 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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ETI planning to invest GBP 25m in CCS Next Generation Capture Technology Demonstrator for 2020
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is starting the search for organisations or consortia to bid for a major project which could establish an advanced CO2 Capture Technology demonstration project. The proposed project would see the development of world-leading next generation capture technology to a stage where it has completed full scale demonstration by 2015 and ready for adoption into ...
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Cansolv Technology to Remove SO2 from Major Chinese Coal-fired Power Plant
MONTREAL, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shell (NYSE: RDSA) announced today that its Cansolv Technologies Inc. subsidiary (Cansolv) has signed an agreement with Beijing Guodian Longyuan Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. (GDLY) to license a CANSOLV SO2 Scrubbing System for a new 1.2 GW coal-fired power plant to be built by China Guodian Corporation at Duyun in Guizhou province, P.R.C. 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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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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AEP Places Carbon Capture Commercialization on Hold, Citing Uncertain Status of Climate Policy, Weak Economy
American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) is terminating its cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy and placing its plans to advance carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to commercial scale on hold, citing the current uncertain status of U.S. climate policy and the continued weak economy as contributors to the decision. "We are placing the project on hold until ...
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Department of Energy Invests $17.6 Million in Technologies Capable of Reducing CO2 Capture Cost and Energy Penalties
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects to receive $17.6 million in federal funding under the Office of Fossil Energy's Novel and Enabling Carbon Capture Transformational Technologies funding opportunity announcement.This FOA will address the cost and operational challenges associated with current CO2 capture technologies that are commercially available for industry, ...
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Driving down the cost of carbon capture
Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture technologies can already be used under certain conditions and pre-combustion separation uses technologies that are well established in other industrial sectors, such as fertiliser generation and hydrogen production. However, alternative technologies are being explored to further drive down costs and improve overall energy efficiency. New research has ...
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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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Benefit of emission reduction in coal-fired power plants demonstrated with environmental burden index
Coal-fired power plant operators can make substantial reductions in actual greenhouse gases and huge reductions in other emissions. Operating costs would be reduced while the cost of electricity and life cycle costs would not increase. The large investment to accomplish this would greatly boost the U.S. economy. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in its just completed analysis: ...
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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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MHI Receives ´Environmental Business Award´ for CO2 Recovery Plant
- In "eco japan cup 2012," Environmental Business Contest - Tokyo, Feb 25, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an "Environmental Business Award" in the eco japan cup 2012 for its innovative carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery plant. The eco japan cup is an environmental business contest sponsored primarily by Environmental Business Women, a general ...
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Metso and Fortum`s joint development work on oxyfuel combustion technology makes headway
Project aims to considerably reduce CO2 emissions Metso Corporation's press release on May 16, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. local time In a joint R&D project, Metso and Fortum have developed oxyfuel combustion technology that aims to reduce the CO2 emissions of power plants. In 2010, Metso's 4-MW test plant in Tampere, Finland, was modified for oxyfuel combustion, resulting in the biggest ...
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