Carbon capture and storage - one of the most important engineering challenges
Carbon Capture on large scale power plants
Im searching for people to share information about large scale and commercial carbon capture projects in Germany, Europe or world wide. I have just worked on a market studie about the state-of-the-art on commercial carbon capture projects in germany. It is really hard to get new and reliable information. Of course all companys say that they care about our environment and plan pilot and test plants. But what are they really doing? And are they able to scale these plants up?
Looking foreward to meeting some nice people.
Benjamin Görge
Looking foreward to meeting some nice people.
Benjamin Görge
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Permalink Reply by Rob Nite on -
Well Benjamin,
It appears that the concrete deal in Spain is available now that GreenFuel is bowing out. Doesn't make sense to me that with 92 million on the table you should be able to set up a plant. Our specs figure about 2 mil USD for capture of 100 tons per year using Algae PBR carbon capture techniques. This would provide a profit center from the biomass being produced to assist the build out. What do I not see here?
Rob Nite
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Permalink Reply by Ronald Mitchell on -
Ben
See the following press announcement;
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. News
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2009/05/22 Issued vol.1294
Tokyo, May 22, 2009 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, will jointly demonstrate a plant to test technology enabling recovery of between 100,000 and 150,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from flue-gas emissions from a coal-fired power generation plant.
Click here for details
http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/news/story/0905221294.html
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Permalink Reply by jen on -
hi, i have an suggestion go to www.alternrg.com they new technology.... and carbon capture ready!! enjoy.
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Permalink Reply by Wilmot H. McCutchen on
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Hi Benjamin,
I am a US inventor in the CCS space. One published patent application is for a new method of CO2 capture, by stripping the nitrogen ballast and steam from flue gas, to leave an enriched stream of CO2. Centrifugal gas separation occurs in a high-shear mechanical device that produces an area-preserving vascular network of radial vortices in a shear layer between boundary layers of flue gas against counter-rotating centrifugal impellers. See http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0013867.html
Chemical capture can never work, no matter what new solvents or catalysts are proposed, because of the presence of the nitrogen ballast and the fly ash and acid precursors NOx and SOx. Another problem is that chemical capture doubles water consumption and reduces plant efficiency significantly. Membranes are impractical because of the fly ash in the hot and dirty flue gas where the CO2 is at only ~15% concentration.
Your thoughts?
Published by Carbon Capture Journal Ltd, London
