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JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The selection of Phase 2 projects will occur next year based upon Phase 1 results.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. In conventional CTL approaches, energy is supplied by burning a portion of the coal feed, which then produces carbon dioxide. Process flow diagram. Source: SRI.

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MAY 25, 2010

The study was published online 24 May in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Today in China one frequently proposed answer is electric vehicles (EVs), which could alleviate dependence on petroleum by using other energy sources such as coal and hydro.Nowadays, China is considered to be a very promising market for EVs.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. We lack the technology to monitor and detect hydrogen leaks at the scale needed, but new technology is being developed as the industry adapts. A global warming potential of 11.6 —Dr Sand Resources Sand, M.,

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

KOBELCO) has successfully demonstrated technology that can reduce CO 2 emissions from blast furnace operations by approximately 20% by combining the Midrex’ HBI technologies and the blast furnace operations of Kobe Steel. Coke is carbon fuel made from coal. Midrex Technologies, Inc. Kobe Steel, Ltd. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. TEC will be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the US. .

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This manufacturing process has significant potential for CO 2 savings, compared to coal-based steel production in a blast furnace. Boston Metal uses electricity for its new technology, which, by means of an electrolysis cell, produces molten iron that is later processed into steel. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 5, 2010

an advanced coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) storage network. With the funds announced today, the partner recipients will repower Ameren’s 200 megawatt Unit 4 in Meredosia, Illinois with advanced oxy-combustion technology. to build FutureGen 2.0,

Coal

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Arizona Public Service’s ongoing algae-based carbon mitigation project, previously selected via competitive solicitation, will be expanded to include testing with a coal-based gasification system. The process aims to minimize production of carbon dioxide when gasifying coal. Funding for the project expansion falls under the ARRA’s $1.52

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Comparison of coal consumption and CO 2 emissions for co-production and separate production of liquids and power. Conventional CTL plant gasifies coal to produce a syngas which is then converted in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to products. Tags: Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Emissions. Source: Mantripragada and Rubin. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 11, 2009

A US Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) team of regional partners has begun injecting CO 2 into a deep lignite coal seam in Burke County, North Dakota, to demonstrate the economic and environmental viability of geologic CO 2 storage in the US Great Plains region.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Advent Technologies Holdings and BASF New Business GmbH recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and increase the manufacturing scale of advanced fuel cell membranes designed for long-term operations under extreme conditions. —Advent Technologies’ Chairman and CEO Dr. Vasilis Gregoriou.

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JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Although emissions vary by plant and with the specific type of fuel, EPA provided illustrative examples of CO 2 emissions from EGUs: Conventional coal: 1,800 lbs CO 2 /MWh. Coal with carbon capture and storage (CCS): 200 lbs CO 2 /MWh. A company could build a coal?fired Natural Gas Combined Cycle: 820 lbs CO 2 /MWh.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

A US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners has begun injecting carbon dioxide into coal seams in the Central Appalachian Basin to determine the feasibility of CO 2 storage in unmineable coal seams and the potential for enhanced coalbed methane recovery. feet in thickness. trillion cubic feet. SECARB website

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The successful bench-scale test of a novel carbon dioxide capturing sorbent promises to further advance the process as a possible technological option for reducing CO 2 emissions from coal-fired power plants. The new sorbent, BrightBlack, was originally developed for a different application by Advanced Technology Materials Inc.

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JULY 5, 2011

Humanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater and faster than the industrial revolution to avoid “ a major planetary catastrophe ,” according to a new United Nations report. Supporting a broad energy technology development. technologies in specific locations.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. billion from 1975-2000 to develop DCL technology. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It will require China to deploy an additional 800-1,000 gigawatts of nuclear, wind, solar and other zero emission generation capacity by 2030—more than all the coal-fired power plants that exist in China today and close to total current electricity generation capacity in the United States. million cubic meters of freshwater per year.

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JULY 25, 2013

Although advances in non-liquids-based transportation technologies are anticipated, they are not enough to offset the rising demand for transportation services worldwide. Biomass Climate Change Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Emissions Forecasts Fuels Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) Market Background' per year, or 38% overall, from 2010 to 2040.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The proposed rulemaking establishes separate standards for natural gas and coal plants. coal units) are based on the performance of a new efficient coal unit implementing partial carbon capture and storage (CCS). Climate Change Coal Emissions Natural Gas Policy Power Generation' Background.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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MARCH 11, 2011

million) into another phase of their research on CO2 scrubbing for carbon capture. The pilot plant which was commissioned in the coal innovation center in Niederaussem in 2009 will now go through a long-term test from March until the end of 2013. Linde, BASF and German power utility RWE will invest a further €6 million (US$8.3

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JANUARY 26, 2014

JET technology is already operating successfully in a steel mill in Asia. Oxygen, lime and coal are blown in through bottom tuyeres and a top lance blows hot jet onto the bath. This results in excellent mixing and optimal use of the blown-in coal. Additionally, coal is blown in from below, where it is used as fuel.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

A pilot project by We Energies, Alstom and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) testing an Alstom advanced chilled ammonia process ( earlier post ) has demonstrated more than 90% capture of carbon dioxide from the flue stream of a coal-fueled power plant in Wisconsin (the Pleasant Prairie Carbon Capture Pilot Plant ).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

(MHI) and Southern Company, a major US electric utility, has begun underground injection of CO 2 recovered from emissions from a coal-fired power generation plant. Compared with other CO 2 capture technologies, the KM CDR Process uses significantly less energy, according to MHI. million customers in the country’s southeast.

Coal

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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JUNE 21, 2014

In a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , they report that the two CUGP options increase carbon efficiency by 21.1?41.3% Researchers in South Korea are suggesting two new carbon-dioxide-utilized Gas-to-Liquids processes (CUGP) to increase the overall efficiency of conventional Fischer-Tropsch GTL.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

million award from the US Department of Energy for a Phase 3 project to design and to test carbon dioxide compression using technologies developed under previous DOE phases of the improved compression technologies program. The US government and utilities are developing technologies to separate CO 2 both pre- and post-combustion.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Injection of CO 2 began in a first-of-a-kind US Department of Energy–sponsored field trial of enhanced coalbed methane recovery with simultaneous CO2 sequestration in an unmineable coal seam. MPa) and a rate of about 27 short tons per day over the next 2 years into the center wells in the Upper Freeport coal seam.

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JUNE 21, 2010

The targeted coal seams are in the Pratt, Mary Lee, and Black Creek Coal groups within the upper Pottsville Formation and range from 940 to 1,800 feet in depth and from 1 to 6 feet in thickness. Coal in the Black Warrior Basin has the potential to sequester 1.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from these coal seams.

Alabama

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JULY 2, 2013

In the first step, an novel high-temperature technology will process natural gas to obtain hydrogen and carbon. Compared to other processes, this technology produces much less CO 2. This enables the production of hydrogen and solid carbon; the latter may potentially be used to replace hard coal in the coke and steel industries.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This enables less coal to be used for the reduction process, resulting in reduced emissions. thyssenkrupp already offers its customers CO2-reduced and certified steels on the basis of its tkH2Steel transformation concept. To this end, various opportunities for CO2 reduction are being exploited within the existing technology framework.

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JULY 8, 2015

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Geely is committed to achieving the long-term goal of zero emissions mobility through a diverse suite of new energy solutions, including renewable methanol vehicle technology. Earlier post.)

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JULY 6, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0001342 ) for cost-effective CO 2 capture or conversion solutions for coal-relevant applications at low concentrations. Proposed technologies should mitigate CO 2 from coal-relevant gases with CO 2 concentrations of.

Coal

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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The US 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. Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.

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