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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.

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 ...

Jul. 20, 2014

By New Sky Energy

IBERDROLA has acquired a 20% holding in Westec Environmental Solutions (WES) an American Company focusing on the development of CO2 Capture and Storage Technologies

Via the Perseo Fund IBERDROLA has acquired a 20% holding in the company The work of Westec, which won the first edition of the Perseo awards, focuses on the development of CO2 capture and storage technologies, using equipment which is smaller and cheaper than current systems but equally efficient The operation is in line with Perseo’s aim of promoting new projects and businesses of high ...

Jun. 6, 2011

By Iberdrola

Novel Carbon Capture Solvent Begins Pilot-Scale Testing for Emissions Control

Pilot-scale testing of an advanced technology for economically capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue gas has begun at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) in Wilsonville, Ala. Under a cooperative agreement with the Energy Department’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Linde LLC is operating a nominal 1-megawatt-electric (MWe) pilot plant expected to capture 30 tons of ...

Jan. 13, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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)

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 ...

Feb. 25, 2013

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

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 ...

Oct. 21, 2014

By Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

Department of energy announces $67 million investment for carbon capture development

The US Department of Energy announced today the selection of ten projects aimed at developing advanced technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal combustion. The projects, valued at up to $67 million over three years, focus on reducing the energy and efficiency penalties associated with applying currently available carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to existing and new ...

Jul. 7, 2010

By US Department of Energy

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

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

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

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)

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

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.

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

World premiere: Air Liquide inaugurates its CO₂ cold capture system, Cryocap™

Today (Nov 5, 2915), in France, Air Liquide inaugurated Cryocap™, a unique industrial installation that enables the capture of CO2 released during hydrogen production via a cryogenic process. Connected to Air Liquide’s largest hydrogen production unit in France, located in Port-Jérôme, Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon (Normandy), Cryocap™ represents an investment of around ...

Nov. 5, 2015

By Air Liquide

CCB and ZEG receives a NOK 77m grant from Enova to establish pilot plant for clean hydrogen production

At CCB Energy park on the west coast of Norway, Coast Center Base (CCB) is to establish a plant for production of clean hydrogen from gas, with integrated CO2 capture, using the ZEG technology. Today, CCB and ZEG Power have announced that the project receives a 77mNOK grant from Enova. CCB has entered into a partnership with ZEG Power, a Norwegian company that has developed technology and ...

Jul. 9, 2020

By ZEG Power AS

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

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 ...

Apr. 16, 2009

By SINTEF Group - Marine Environmental Technology

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

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