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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 ...
By ZEG Power AS
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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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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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Injection of CO2 Started at ON Power’s Geothermal Plant in Nesjavellir, Iceland
Carbfix’s new pilot CCS plant at ON Power’s geothermal plant at Nesjavellir, Iceland is now operational and injection of CO2 and H2S has started at the site. This is a result of significant research and development carried out within the EU Horizon2020 project GECO to further improve the Carbfix technology. The captured CO2 is injected into the basaltic subsurface at the Nesjavellir injection ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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CCS is moving forward
Two large components arrived today at the pilot plant for CO2 capture in Buggenum, the Netherlands. Through its subsidiary Nuon, Vattenfall is now actively working with development of three different carbon capture technologies. Important parts of the CO2 capture pilot are put into place today. The pilot is located at the Willem Alexander power plant in Buggenum and will start up operations in ...
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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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DOE Invests $17 Million to Advance Carbon Utilization Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 projects to receive approximately $17 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects for carbon utilization. The projects will develop and test technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from power systems or other industrial sources as the primary feedstock. The research goal of ...
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Carbon Engineering and LanzaTech partner to advance jet fuel made from air
Biotechnology company LanzaTech UK, and cleantech company Carbon Engineering (CE), have partnered on a first-of-a-kind project to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) out of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Project AtmosFUEL will investigate the feasibility of a large-scale, commercial air-to-jet facility in the UK that will produce more than 100 million litres of SAF each year. The proposed ...
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