carbon dioxide capture project News

Aker Solutions Starts Pioneering CO2-Capture Project in Norway

The project is the first of its kind globally for a waste-to-energy plant and comes after Aker Solutions in December signed a contract with the city government. The project is funded by Gassnova, the state enterprise that supports the development and demonstration of technologies to capture carbon dioxide (CO2). "This is pioneering work with significant potential as the world focuses on finding ...

Jan. 25, 2016

By Aker Solutions ASA

Commissioner Piebalgs welcomes pioneering decision on state aid for a CO2 capture project

The ESA, EFTA Surveillance Authority, adopted last week a decision not to raise objections to the Norwegian State’s investment in a project in the western part of Norway (Mongstadt) whose objective will be to test, verify and demonstrate different concepts and technologies capable of reducing costs and risks related to large scale CO2 capture. 'This decision provides an important precedent for ...

Jul. 23, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

B&W Technology Selected for Use in DOE’s FutureGen 2.0 CO2-Capture Project

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC) announced today that the oxy-coal combustion technology developed by its Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. subsidiary (B&W PGG) and Air Liquide Process & Construction, Inc. has been included by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in its award of a cooperative agreement to Ameren Energy Resources ...

Oct. 6, 2010

By Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (McDermott International)

7 CEMS for the experimental Spanish CO2 Capture Plant!

In order to establish the variation of operating conditions of the plant and to determine in real time emissions of pollutants at different points, 7 MIR systems will be placed, among others, at the entrance of the SCR DENOx, and at the entrance and the exit of the DESOx system, on stack, etc. ... La Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN), set up in May 2006, is the main Spanish ...

Feb. 23, 2011

By ENVEA

CERC takes part in Carbon Capture and Storage modelling

CERC’s contribution to the ‘CO2 capture Mongstad’ project, a major venture overseen by Statoil Petroleum AS and Gassnova SF (the Norwegian State enterprise for carbon capture and storage), is ongoing. Statoil and Gassnova are planning to equip the combined heat and power (CHP) plant at Mongstad refinery with post-combustion carbon capture, potentially using amine technology. ...

Jun. 25, 2013

By Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC)

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

Ciuden and Endesa present their CO2 capture and storage projects in Brussels

The Spanish government sponsored Energy City Foundation (Fundación Estatal Cuidad de la Energía or CIUDEN for its initials in Spanish) and ENDESA GENERACION have presented their respective CO2 capture and storage projects to Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs’ Cabinet, aided by two of Spain’s permanent EU representatives. This is part of a joint ENDESA-CIUDEN initiative to demonstrate the ...

Jul. 30, 2008

By Endesa, S.A.

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)

Funds Awarded to Historically Black Colleges and Universities for Fossil Energy Research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research projects that will provide educational and research training opportunities for minority students while advancing key technical areas in fossil fuel utilization. The annual funding opportunity titled Support of Advanced Fossil Resource Utilization Research by Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions ...

Oct. 7, 2014

By US Department of Energy

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, ...

Feb. 23, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Peterhead makes £1bn CCS shortlist

The Secretary of State said:? “This is good news for Peterhead and Scotland as a whole. This is a major infrastructure project which could potentially support a significant amount of investment and jobs which would be a tremendous boost for the economy around Peterhead. It also demonstrates that once again Scotland is leading the way in deploying new and innovative types of energy ...

Mar. 21, 2013

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Department of Energy Announces $41 million investment for carbon capture development

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today the selection of 16 projects aimed at developing advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal–fired power plants. The projects, valued at $41 million over three years, are focused on reducing the energy and cost penalties associated with applying currently available carbon capture technologies to existing ...

Aug. 26, 2011

By US Department of Energy

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 ...

Sep. 8, 2010

By US Department of Energy

Ensuring safe carbon capture and storage in China

Tsinghua University is partnering with WRI to develop guidelines for China’s deployment of CCS technology. Many have said that we can’t solve the climate change challenge without a solution for coal. Nowhere is this truer than in China, which already uses more coal than the U.S, the European Union and Japan combined. Many experts are now looking at carbon capture and storage—known as CCS—as the ...

Mar. 2, 2009

By Worldwatch Institute

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. ...

Aug. 21, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Department of Energy, Shell Canada to Collaborate on CO2 Storage Project

The Department of Energy (DOE) and Shell Canada announced today (Feb 4, 2015) they intend to collaborate in field tests to validate advanced monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) technologies for underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The tests will take place at Shell’s Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada. The Shell Quest team and technology ...

Feb. 4, 2015

By US Department of Energy

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 ...

Jul. 21, 2009

By National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

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 ...

Mar. 23, 2010

By Energy Technologies Institute LLP (ETI)

China goes green

Europe is earnestly investigating important measures to drastically reduce pollution. However, if the world is to achieve the targets set out by the Kyoto Protocol — which outlines the reduction of greenhouse gases — action has to be taken at a global level. The EU, which has already made efforts to reduce its own CO2 production, is lending a helping hand to China. This effort involves the ...

Jan. 15, 2008

By European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation

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