Daily carbon capture and storage technology news http://www.carboncapturejournal.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:04 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/images/carboncapturelogo.jpg http://www.carboncapturejournal.com Carbon Capture Journal news http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=524 NRG Energy has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to receive up to $154 million to build a post-combustion carbon capture demonstration unit at NRG’s WA Parish plant southwest of Houston. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=525 Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group and Fluor's Power Group have formed a strategic alliance with to market and sell CO2 capture systems for existing coal-fired power plants in the US and Canada. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=526 A report in the Yorkshire Post says that Drax is conducting feasibility studies into the application of CCS at the UK's largest coal fired power plant. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=527 Foster Wheeler has been awarded a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler contract for a CO2 capture development plant Ponferrada, Spain. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=528 UOP, a Honeywell company, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the US DOE for a project to demonstrate technology to capture CO2 and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=529 A plan to position Scotland as the world leader in carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been published. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=530 The report, “Innovation Milestones to 2050”, identifies a pressing need for investment in energy technologies with the greatest potential, such as CCS, increasing the chances of early deployment. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=516 SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development institute, has been awarded a $4.5M Department of Energy (DOE) project to evaluate the technical and economic viability of CO2 capture using an ammonium carbonate-ammonium bicarbonate (AC-ABC) process at gasification plants, including IGCC power plants. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=517 Canadian company SaskPower and Shell subsidiary Cansolv Technologies have signed an agreement to license a CANSOLV Integrated Carbon and Sulphur Capture System for the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:00 http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=518 CO2 injection is underway as part of a pilot study of CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the Citronelle Field of Mobile County, Alabama. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:00