Sentences with phrase «coal gasification technology»

Eleven plants using Shell coal gasification technology, including Shell's joint venture with Sinopec in Yueyang of Hunan Province, have been started up.
Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell's Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell's patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification.
Tier II sources include: waste coal, large - scale hydropower, municipal solid waste, integrated combined coal gasification technology, utilizing wood pulping, employing distribution generation systems, and demand - side management use.

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Southern signed a memorandum of understanding with state - owned Chinese company Shenhua Group earlier this year to collaborate on clean coal technologies, but the one licensing of TRIG on a Chinese facility so far is for the gasification technology only, minus the capture component, according to Southern officials.
In order to get technologies, such as integrated gasification and combined cycle coal power plants with carbon capture and storage, into the economic mainstream, a carbon price is needed.
A primitive version of the technology behind this Dantean inferno of underground coal gasification (UCG) has already been running for 50 years in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.
«There is no plant that integrates gasification with capture and sequestration,» says physicist Ernest Moniz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who co-chaired a report on the future of coal.
And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.
• Two new nuclear plants, called Vogtle 3 & 4, in Georgia (47 % ownership) • A new - technology coal gasification generation facility called Trig in Mississippi
Use coal gasification as a stopgap while developing new technologies to produce electricity.
Third, new technologies, such as underground coal gasification and especially carbon capture and storage, can — if given substantial financial support — reduce emissions substantially from coal use in power plants and industrial facilities.
The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Peabody, which operates three coal mines in the Powder River Basin, has argued against climate change legislation at the national and international level, pushing instead for coal gasification and carbon sequestration technologies, under the name clean coal.
She also authored a 2007 fact sheet on Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC, or «clean» coal) used by hundreds of activists around the U.S., and helped advocates understand why «clean» coal is uneconomic and can not compete with solar, wind, biodigesters, efficiency and other technologies.
While some of the technologies GE sells — such as wind and solar power — are indeed carbon neutral, others — such as its «clean coal» integrated gasification combined - cycle coal power plants — are questionable.
«The DLP will push for the retention of our cheap, clean and efficient coal fired power stations and look to a more transitional model of using coal gasification and other clean coal technologies that would be far less costly to the taxpayer, while producing a secure and solid baseline for our grid.»
But there's a new coal - based power generation technology, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC, which allows CCS systems in new plants to more efficiently capture and store CO2 because the CO2 can be removed before combustion.
The levelized cost of new coal plants already exceeds that of new NGCC plants, and «today's CCS technologies would add around 80 % to the cost of electricity for a new pulverized coal (PC) plant, and around 35 % to the cost of electricity for a new advanced gasification - based (IGCC) plant,» according to the EPA (77 FR 22415).
China has expressed a strong interest in cleaner coal - based technologies like coal liquefaction and gasification, but the government appears to put official hope in renewable energy, setting a target of 12 % of its power generation capacity coming from renewables by 2020 — up from a mere 3 % in 2003.
There is an immediate «path» using de-centralized (bottom / up) approaches (Dr. Ramanathan's 4 pollutants), free trade and high economic growth policies (e.g., exporting LGN and U.S. energy efficiency technology to developing economies — including IGCC coal gasification, I might add).
Zero - emission technology most typically involved the vision of coal gasification, in which pollutants would be separated out of the emissions stream prior to combustion, together with carbon capture and sequestration, in which carbon dioxide would be liquified and stored permanently underground.
Known as IGCC — for integrated gasification combined cycle — this cleaner technology converts coal into a gas before it is burned.
UCG technology could also have synergies with CCS as the CO2 could be stored in the coal cavity after gasification.
To develop a fuel feed technology for high - pressure gasifiers that will result in significantly lower - cost coal gasification plant construction and / or operation for production of power with carbon capture; or that will result in significantly lower - cost coal gasification plant construction and / or operation for production of liquid fuels with carbon capture.
The plant was envisioned as a flagship demonstration for both CCS and gasification technologies, allowing utilities to continue burning coal in the face of a tightening carbon budget and stricter emission rules.
In addition to conventional power technologies, CoalSwarm provides information on «clean coal» technologies including integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and carbon capture and storage.
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Underground coal gasification is a risky and highly experimental technology that involves burnning coal underground in order to extract gas, in this case under two of Scotland's five major coastal bays.
Coal gasification is one of the few areas of so - called «clean coal» technology that critics say could actually offer a cleaner answer to cCoal gasification is one of the few areas of so - called «clean coal» technology that critics say could actually offer a cleaner answer to ccoal» technology that critics say could actually offer a cleaner answer to coalcoal.
While most of the technology is years from being proven on a large scale, startups are raising funds — Secure Energy, a St. Louis - based coal gasification company, has raised $ 5.5 million of an $ 8 million Series A round, according to PE Hub.
In a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant, saying they will refuse to ask utility customers to pay anything for Kemper's non-functional multi-billion dollar «clean coal» gasification technology and will re-designate the plant as a natural gas facility.
``... Integrated gasification combined cycle technology uses a coal gasification system to convert coal into a synthesis gas (syngas).
In what Treehugger writer John Laumer calls the Climate Trifecta,» Bullion Monarch Mining Co., is proposing to produce oil from oil shale using coal gasification, which they label as a «clean coal» technology.
Additionally, Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (Shell) also qualified three Chinese companies for the manufacture of key equipment for the Shell Coal Gasification Process (SCGP), in order to make the Shell technology more competitive in the Chinese market.
Of very high interest to me are biofuels, photovoltaics, concentrated solar thermal technologies, biomass conversion, cogeneration, coal gasification, biomass densification, biomass gasification, torrefaction, and pelletization.
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