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DOE awarding up to $80M for supercritical CO2 pilot plant

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $80 million for a six-year project to design, build, and operate a 10-MWe (megawatts electrical) supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 ) pilot plant test facility in San Antonio, TX. Compact design/footprint lowers capital cost. Higher plant efficiency.

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Turbo, air-hybrid Scuderi split cycle engine achieves 64 mpg US in simulations; CO2 emissions of 85 g/km

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The Scuderi Group commissioned Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, to generate a representative average vehicle in this class with technical data from these models and use this as the basis for a comparison simulation according to the new European driving cycle (NEDC).

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on novel concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO 2 exhausted from industrial processes. cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. DOE Share: $25,000,000).

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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This is another important milestone for the Texas Clean Energy Project, coming on the heels of last month’s power purchase announcement with CPS Energy in San Antonio. The project’s front end engineering design (FEED) study was launched in June 2010 by Fluor, Siemens and Selas Fluid Processing Corporation, a Linde Group subsidiary.

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