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Unique CO2 technology facility officially opens

Natural Resources Canada has opened a pilot-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) capture facility that simultaneously removes pollutants while purifying and compressing CO2 for transport, storage or ...

Apr. 21, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Mantra to develop commercial scale CO2 capture facility

Vancouver-based Mantra Venture Group Ltd. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Bluebird Co. Ltd. (Bluebird), an environmental engineering company based out of Seoul, Korea. Under the terms of the MOU, Bluebird will become an integral partner in the development, deployment and eventual commercialization of Mantra’s Electro-reduction of Carbon Dioxide Technology in ...

Apr. 3, 2009

By GLOBE SERIES

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 ...

Sep. 18, 2009

By E.ON AG

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 ...

Sep. 14, 2012

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

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 ...

Oct. 17, 2012

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

New CO2CRC carbon capture project commissioned

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) research has taken a major step forward with the commissioning of Australia’s most comprehensive post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture research facility, the CO2CRC H3 Capture Project, at International Power’s Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The project was launched by Victorian Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor ...

Jul. 9, 2009

By Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC)

Energy Department Invests $44M in Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected seven projects to receive approximately $44 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development through the funding opportunity announcement, Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies. These projects will advance competitive operation of our nation's fossil-based power-generation ...

Feb. 19, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

U.S. Energy Secretary Announces $24 Million in New Projects to Advance Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced the selection of eight projects to receive nearly $24 million in federal funds for cost-shared research and development (R&D) for Novel and Enabling Carbon Capture Transformational Technologies. The selected projects will focus on the development of solvent, sorbent, and membrane technologies to address scientific challenges and knowledge gaps ...

Mar. 1, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Secretary Chu announces carbon capture and storage simulation initiative

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today the creation of the Carbon Capture and Storage Simulation Initiative with an investment of up to $40 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The partnership announced today will bring together national laboratories and regional university alliances to collaborate on advancing the science and research related to carbon capture ...

Sep. 8, 2010

By US Department of Energy

AspenTech Software Demonstrates Economically Viable Carbon Capture at World’s Largest CO2 Test Facility

Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced that Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) is using aspenONE® software at the world’s largest industrial-scale facility for testing and improving CO2 capture technologies. TCM uses Aspen Plus® software and Aspen InfoPlus.21® software for planning, follow-up and ...

Feb. 11, 2013

By Aspen Technology, Inc.

Starwood Energy, OGCI Climate Investments and Elysian Ventures Launch New Carbon Capture Project

Starwood Energy Group Global, Inc. recently announced that it has finalized agreements with OGCI Climate Investments to invest in the development of a large-scale carbon capture facility to be integrated with a natural gas power plant. Starwood and OGCI CI will co-invest in the initial development of the project, which will use commercially available CO2 capture technology and is expected to ...

Apr. 6, 2020

By Smart Grid Observer

Energy Department Project Captures and Stores One Million Metric Tons of Carbon

As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of Energy announced today that its Illinois Basin-Decatur Project successfully captured and stored one million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and injected it into a deep saline formation. The project is part of the development phase of the Department’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships ...

Jan. 8, 2015

By US Department of Energy

B&W Awarded $2.8 Million in DOE Funding for Carbon Capture Research

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC) announced today that its Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) subsidiary has been selected to receive $2.8 million in financial assistance funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to study chemical formulations to improve the performance of its Regenerable Solvent Absorption ...

Dec. 19, 2011

By Babcock & Wilcox

U.S. EPA Approves Carbon Sequestration Permit in Decatur, Illinois

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a permit allowing the Archer Daniels Midland Company to inject carbon dioxide deep underground in Decatur, Illinois. This process – known as “carbon sequestration” – is a means of storing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. ADM plans to capture carbon dioxide produced by an ethanol ...

Sep. 26, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Coca-Cola Hellenic sets new sustainable standards with the opening of high-tech operations in Ireland

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company operations in Ireland today officially opened a new energy efficient bottling plant, computerised warehouse, and community-focused visitors centre at Knockmore Hill, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. The €130 million facility employs 600 people and has the capacity to produce a wide range of non-alcoholic beverages for delivery throughout the entire island of ...

Sep. 9, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

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 ...

May 5, 2014

By Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Low-cost recyclable material could capture carbon dioxide from power plants

Researchers have developed a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other generators of the greenhouse gas. Produced with a simple one-step chemical process, the new material has a high capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide — and can be reused many times. Combined with improved heat management techniques, the new material ...

Mar. 7, 2008

By Environmental News Network (ENN)

Major research programme for CO2-capture

A scientific research and development programme worth more than NOK 300 million is being launched in Norway with the aim of generating more cost effective technology for CO2-capture. The project is one of the biggest of its kind to date. SINTEF, the independent research organisation, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Aker Clean Carbon, the industrial technology ...

Oct. 31, 2008

By SINTEF Group - Marine Environmental Technology

Carbon Engineering announces plan for Shopify to be first purchaser of its carbon removal solution

Today, Carbon Engineering (CE) and Shopify announced a planned commitment for carbon dioxide (CO2) to be permanently removed from the atmosphere on Shopify’s behalf using CE’s Direct Air Capture (DAC) solution. Shopify is the first organization to plan to purchase permanent carbon dioxide removal from one of CE’s early commercial DAC plants, once constructed and operational in ...

Sep. 15, 2020

By Carbon Engineering Ltd

Carbon Engineering chosen as sustainability partner for Virgin’s new rewards club, Virgin Red

Today, the Virgin Group launched its new rewards club, Virgin Red, on an exclusive, invitation-only basis. In a world-first for a loyalty programme, Virgin Red has included an option for members to directly support the development of an emerging climate change solution – Direct Air Capture (DAC). Carbon Engineering’s (CE) DAC technology is a key solution that can remove carbon dioxide ...

Nov. 18, 2020

By Carbon Engineering Ltd

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