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Wilmot H. McCutchen
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Sequestration -- Time to Punt?
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By 2035 the EIA forecasts annual US CO2 emissions of 6.32 billion metric tons, 38% of which (2.40 billion) will be from coal plants alone.…Continue

Tags: Economides, storage, geologic, sequestration

Started this discussion. Last reply by Green Power Feb 10, 2011.

Chemical Capture and Underground Dumping (CCS) Offers No Realistic Hope

Conventional thinking holds that chemical capture (by amine scrubbing) followed by underground dumping ("sequestration") is the only possible way to a "clean coal" system.  Now that the delusion…Continue

Tags: sequestration, and, capture, carbon

Started Jul 19, 2010

 

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Post-combustion CO2 capture -- the known alternatives and a new one

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Let's briefly consider the proposals for post-combustion CO2 capture and acknowledge their fundamental limitations before wasting what little research money is available now.Chemical capture by amine scrubbing drops plant efficiency 9% and doubles plant water consumption.  Heat-stable salts and corrosion in the sorbent regenerator remain unsolved problems.  Hot and…See More
Wilmot H. McCutchen added a discussion to the group Industrial carbon capture Aug 9, 2011
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Industrial carbon capture

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People working on technology to capture carbon dioxide from industrial power / cement / aluminimum plants
Wilmot H. McCutchen joined Karl Jeffery's group Aug 9, 2011
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  The world is a great place, but it is falling apart and we all are responsable for this. Be responsable now and try to make it better. Biochar, one of the newest option can contribuate to atmospheric CO2 reduction. Find out…
Feb 10, 2011
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Green Power replied to Wilmot H. McCutchen's discussion 'Sequestration -- Time to Punt?'
  The world is a great place, but it is falling apart and we all are responsable for this. Be responsable now and try to make it better. Biochar, one of the newest option can contribuate to atmospheric CO2 reduction. Find out…
Feb 10, 2011
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Wilmot H. McCutchen commented on Andrii Torn's video
Very well done explanation of the state of the art of CO2 capture. The problem is separating CO2 from the nitrogen ballast (N2 and steam are 80% of flue gas) and the NOx and SOx and aerosols, such as mercury vapor and PM-2.5 fly ash which are in the…
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Carbon Capture in Action - CO2CRC

Nov 15, 2010
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Erich J. Knight replied to Wilmot H. McCutchen's discussion 'Sequestration -- Time to Punt?'
Gasifiers, Pyrolysis furnaces and Hydro-Thermal carbonization only "Burn" the Syn-Gas & Bio-Oils, not the 1/3 of carbon in the lignin-cellulose of the plants cellular structure. The biomass energy cycle of these char systems is…
Oct 11, 2010
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Wilmot H. McCutchen replied to Wilmot H. McCutchen's discussion 'Sequestration -- Time to Punt?'
I don't see how biochar relates here. Burning trash adds CO2 to the atmosphere, so it seems more prudent to convert that trash to biochar and bury it, but that won't have any impact on CO2 emissions from fossil fuel.
Oct 11, 2010
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Erich J. Knight replied to Wilmot H. McCutchen's discussion 'Sequestration -- Time to Punt?'
Recent NATURE STUDY; Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n5/full/ncomms1053.html Not talked about in this otherwise comprehensive study are the climate and whole ecological implications of…
Oct 11, 2010
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Sequestration -- Time to Punt?

By 2035 the EIA forecasts annual US CO2 emissions of 6.32 billion metric tons, 38% of which (2.40 billion) will be from coal plants alone. To put that in perspective, consider that in Texas the huge Permian Basin oil field’s current annual enhanced oil recovery (EOR) demand is only 7 million tons of CO2, about the output of a single 1 GW coal-fired power plant. See…See More
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Engineering applications for the Carbon Capture Industry

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This Group deals with engineering applications and/or e-solutions for the Carbon Capture Industry ...
Wilmot H. McCutchen joined Gordan Feric's group Sep 9, 2010
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Wilmot H. McCutchen commented on Alisa Murphy's blog post 'B9 Coal announces major clean coal and carbon capture project'
The underground gasification part looks good. What's missing is a credible plan to dispose of the CO2. I suggest that it be pipelined to a wind site to be cracked by wind energy (5.5 eV to go from CO2 to CO). The oxygen from cracking can go…
Sep 8, 2010
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Júlio Carneiro replied to Wilmot H. McCutchen's discussion 'Economides paper on overestimation of sequestration reservoir capacity' in the group Carbon geological storage
If you are really concerned with the Economides paper on storage capacity, just have a look at the ZEP reply to it: http://www.zeroemissionsplatform.eu/component/downloads/?id=511.
Aug 23, 2010
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Abiola Olabode replied to Wilmot H. McCutchen's discussion 'Economides paper on overestimation of sequestration reservoir capacity' in the group Carbon geological storage
i really do not understand the purpose of this paper you posted. are you in support of CO2 sequestration or not? many research works that are seemingly unreasonable and of no financial benefit are going on. the government needs to spend money on CO2…
Aug 21, 2010
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Economides paper on overestimation of sequestration reservoir capacity

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A recent paper by Economides, et al.  http://twodoctors.org/manual/economides.pdf  concluded that geological storage of CO2 is a "profoundly non-feasible option for the management of CO2 emissions."  The reason: "the volume of liquid or supercritical CO2 to be disposed of cannot exceed more than about 1% of pore space."  Anyone have a problem with that?If the Economides paper is right, the reservoir capacity estimations are off by a…See More
Wilmot H. McCutchen added a discussion to the group Carbon geological storage Aug 21, 2010
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What company are you currently employed by / studying with?
Vorsana
What is your job title or role?
CTO
What is your main geographic location?
Western US
Would you like to give some information about yourself - current projects, background, education, ambitions, what you are looking for (if anything) and so on?
post-combustion centrifugal capture, electrolytic dissociation of CO2 using wind and solar
What is the role of your company?
equipment supplier, research
Would you like to let us know your age range?
56-65
How long before 25% of power stations worldwide have carbon capture?
I don't have an opinion
Do you think CCS will always need to be subsidised by government?
No

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At 9:42pm on February 10, 2011, Green PowerGreen Power said…

 

The world is a great place, but it is falling apart and we all are responsable for this. Be responsable now and try to make it better.

Biochar, one of the newest option can contribuate to atmospheric CO2 reduction. Find out more:

http://www.biochar-books.com

The Biochar Revolution is exactly what it says !

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