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GE, Alstom Power, 6 Others Receive DOE Carbon Capture Funding

September 8, 2015September 4, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric, Alstom Power and FuelCell Energy are among the eight projects selected to receive Department of Energy funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of carbon capture and compression. The DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory selected the eight projects to receive funding as part of ... Read more »

Sulzer Pumps for Salt Caverns Storage Project

August 17, 2015August 14, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sulzer has received an order from Strathcona Storage Limited Partnership to supply pumps for the application of injecting hydrocarbons at a very high pressure into salt caverns for storage. The CP Volute Style Pumps for the ethylene service and CP Volute Style Pumps for the ethylene service will be shipped ... Read more »

Wastewater Treatment Captures Carbon Emissions, Produces Energy

August 11, 2015August 10, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A wastewater treatment process developed by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder mitigates carbon dioxide emissions and actively captures greenhouse gases. The treatment method, known as microbial electrolytic carbon capture (MECC), purifies wastewater by using an electrochemical reaction that absorbs more CO2 than it releases while creating renewable energy ... Read more »

How to Cut Coal Power Plants’ Emissions, Costs

August 4, 2015August 4, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New technologies can reduce coal’s emissions and improve coal-fired power plants’ efficiency, according to a report by the Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The CURC-EPRI Advanced Coal Technology Roadmap focuses on the technologies needed to improve the environmental performance of coal use and provides ... Read more »

Changes Likely in Final Version of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

July 21, 2015July 21, 2015 by Karen Henry

EPA’s rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants are expected to be finalized by the end of the summer. It has been nearly two years since the EPA unveiled its proposed greenhouse gas emissions standards under the Clean Air Act for new and modified electric power plants, and over ... Read more »

CO2 Solutions, GasTran Systems Aim to Lower Carbon Capture Costs

June 23, 2015June 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CO2 Solutions has entered into an exclusive collaboration agreement with Cleveland Gas Systems, a provider of high-intensity gas-liquid rotating packed bed (RPB) mass transfer technology, that the partners say will help lower the cost of carbon capture. Under the terms of the agreement, CO2 Solutions and GTS will collaborate on ... Read more »

CCS Could Be Hit With Large Risk Premiums by Insurers, Shell Says

June 12, 2015June 11, 2015 by Kirsten Korosec

Insurance companies wary of the carbon capture technology could hit power plants storing emissions with large risk premiums, Shell said in a document posted on the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change website. The document, which was initially reported by Bloomberg, outlines Shell’s insurance strategy for its carbon capture ... Read more »

Will EPA Drop New Coal Carbon Capture Requirement?

June 3, 2015June 2, 2015 by Karen Henry

The EPA may be backing off its carbon capture requirements, according to InsideEPA. The agency’s original draft of the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide would require all new coal-fired power plants to meet a standard of 1,100 pounds of CO2 per MWh of power produced, which can ... Read more »

Exelis Monitors CO2 Emissions at Carbon Sequestration Site

May 28, 2015May 27, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Exelis is monitoring a site in Illinois for possible carbon dioxide emissions as part of a program funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy seeking to improve greenhouse gas-monitoring technologies and ensuring the safety of carbon capture and storage. The project is administered through DOE’s National Energy ... Read more »

CO2 Solutions Completes Carbon Capture Pilot Testing

April 27, 2015April 27, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CO2 Solutions’ carbon capture process shows potential for CO2 capture that may be better than existing conventional capture technologies, according to results of the pilot testing of the process, completed by the company and the University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) in January. In addition, the ... Read more »

USDA Program Aims to Help Agricultural Producers Cut Emissions

April 27, 2015April 24, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Agricultural producers can reduce net emissions and enhance carbon sequestration by more than 120 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent per year — about 2 percent of economy-wide net greenhouse emissions — by 2025 by participating in a US Department of Agriculture initiative that aims to address climate change. Building ... Read more »

Carbon Capture Projects Store 10M Metric Tons CO2

April 24, 2015April 24, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A group of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects supported by the US Department of Energy have safely captured 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the department says. In a number of CCS projects, the captured CO2 is utilized to enhance oil recovery from mature wells. One DOE-supported project ... Read more »

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