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Montana Governor Signs Clean Energy Bills
HELENA, Montana (ENS) – Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer Tuesday signed into law two bills that provide tax incentives for future development and transmission of clean and renewable energy. The incentives support the development of new transmission lines, carbon dioxide sequestration pipelines to prevent emission of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, liquid fuel pipelines, power plants, ...
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China leading global efforts on clean coal
China is come a step closer to capturing and storing its carbon emissions with the launch of the GreenGen coal gasification plant in Tianjin, according to a report in Nature. Carbon capture and storage was highlighted by the leaders of the G8 group of nations in 2008, when they called for the development of 20 large-scale projects demonstrating carbon capture technologies by 2010. But with the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Washington State Rejects Coal Gasification Power Plant
Environmental groups are applauding Tuesday's decision by Washington state siting officials to halt consideration of a proposed coal gasification power plant at the Port of Kalama in southwest Washington state near the Oregon border. Members of the state's Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, EFSEC, unanimously rejected the plan by public power agency Energy Northwest for permanently ...
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Farley unit 1 returns to service following automatic shutdown
Plant Farley's unit 1 resumed electricity production on Friday, June 14 at 2:47 a.m. CT following an automatic shutdown. On June 11 at 9:05 p.m. CT, Plant Farley's unit 1 reactor automatically shut down when a lightning arrestor failed on a transformer. All Plant Farley safety systems operated as designed and expected. All three of the transformers' lightning arrestors were replaced, and ...
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Enviros Challenge Proposed Coal Gasification Power Plant
SEATTLE, Washington, September 20, 2007 (ENS) - Public power agency Energy Northwest is moving forward with plans to construct a 680-megawatt coal gasification power plant at the Port of Kalama in southwestern Washington state. The consortium of publicly owned utilities has asked the state’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council to hold adjudicatory hearings in late October, followed by a ...
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DOE-Sponsored Syngas Cleanup Demonstration Project Reaches Development Milestone
In a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a demonstration-scale application of RTI International’s warm synthesis gas (syngas) cleanup process technology has achieved a key operational milestone at Tampa Electric Company’s coal gasification plant in Polk County, Fla. The unit has accumulated more than 1,000 hours of operation on a coal- and petroleum-coke-based ...
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DOE Marks Major Milestone with Startup of Recovery Act Demonstration Project
Today, the Department of Energy joined Tampa Electric Company (TECO) to celebrate the successful startup of a pilot project to demonstrate a warm gas cleanup carbon capture technology in a coal gasification unit at the Polk Power Plant Unit-1 in Tampa, Florida. The project, which is approximately $3 million under budget, included $168 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. ...
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Coal & gas power plants - efficiency & cost
Which of today's fossil fuel-fired power plants have highest efficiencies and lowest emissions? And how much do they cost? These are some of the questions answered in IEA's recently released publication Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Generation - Case Studies of Recently Constructed Coal- and Gas-Fired Power Plants. But the authors' case studies covering nine selected facilities in Europe, Asia and ...
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Southern Company, KBR to help drive global adoption of 21st century coal gasification technology
Southern Company – through subsidiary Southern Generation Technologies, LLC – and KBR, LLC, of Houston, Texas, have formed an alliance to market 21st century coal technology, Transport Integrated Gasification (TRIG™), to power companies worldwide. This innovative coal gasification process can provide power companies an efficient means to generate electricity using an ...
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Duke Energy´s Edwardsport power plant begins commercial operation
Duke Energy's Edwardsport Generating Station has begun commercial operation. Located in Knox County, Ind., near Vincennes, the 618-megawatt advanced technology coal gasification plant is one of the world's cleanest coal-fired power generating facilities. The plant uses advanced technology to gasify coal, strip out pollutants, and then burn that cleaner gas to produce electricity. The ...
By Duke Energy
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Southern Company subsidiary acquires 139-megawatt solar plant and more than doubles solar generating capacity
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) today announced the acquisition of the company's largest solar installation – the 139-megawatt (MW) Campo Verde Solar Project – by subsidiary Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy from First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR). The Southern Power-Turner Renewable Energy partnership's fifth solar acquisition and its first solar project in California, the ...
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Ammonia Tank - Dakota Gasification
Thermacon has designed, engineered, manufactured and installed storage tank insulation products throughout the world for over forty years. They have designed innovative products that have exceeded the needs and satisfied very specific and vigorous industry standards for various clients in multiple industries. We are very proud of the work that we do at Thermacon so in this blog and some of our ...
By Thermacon
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Sinopec Qilu Plant in China sets world record using GE Gasification Technology
GE Licensed Coal-Fed Gasification Facility Achieves Record for World’s Longest Continuous Operation Cycle of its Kind at 481 Days GE’s Gasification Technology Demonstrates Unsurpassed Reliability Technology that Helped Set Record Being Discussed at Gasification Technologies Conference in Colorado Springs The Sinopec Qilu No. 2 fertilizer plant in China has achieved the ...
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Lihuayi Again Selects GE’s Gasification Technology to Boost Refinery Hydrogen Production
Project is GE’s Second Gasification Order forLijin Petrochemical Refinery in Shandong GE’s Gasification Solution Enhances Company’s Leading Position in Refinery Hydrogen Production Reliable Coal-to-Chemicals Gasification Technology Supports China’s Goals to Reduce Industrial Emissions Lihuayi Group, a leading petrochemicals supplier in China, has selected ...
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SwRI Researchers Develop Novel Compression Devices for CO2 Sequestration
SAN ANTONIO - Engineers at Southwest Research Institute have completed testing of a high-pressure turbo pump and an enhanced compressor design for sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from pulverized coal, integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and oxy-fuel power plants. Because of growing concern over greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. government and utilities are developing ...
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DOE announces solicitation for US$8bn in loan guarantees
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solicitation for up to US$8.0 billion in federal loan guarantees for projects that employ advanced technologies that avoid, reduce or sequester emissions of air pollutants or greenhouse gases in the area of coal-based power generation, industrial gasification, and advanced coal gasification facilities. This marks the third round of solicitations ...
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