Sentences with phrase «used carbon capture»

He said the oil industry has used carbon capture for years to prime failing oil fields.

«The carbon floor price mechanism presents an excellent opportunity to raise finance to support a new generation of low carbon fossil fuel electricity generation, using carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Forget wind turbines and nuclear power stations — the world could cut greenhouse gas emissions just using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $ 14 million to six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants using carbon capture.

A part of the new entrant reserve, amounting to 300 million allowances, will be made available to support the investments in up to 12 demonstration projects using the carbon capture and storage technology and demonstration projects using innovative renewable energy technologies.

[66] The companies plan to use carbon capture and storage in the process.

Concerning coal, it says under «Key observations» in the summary, «With current technology, coal - fired power plants using carbon capture equipment are an expensive source of electricity in a carbon control case.

The plant plans to use carbon capture and storage to displace up to 50 percent of its CO2 emissions, and will sell its captured CO2 to Denbury Resources for «enhanced oil recovery» in west Texas oil fields.

For years, experts have been debating whether sucking greenhouse gases out of the air using carbon capture technologies are a viable and effective way of curbing emissions on a large scale.

If we can power 50 - 65 % of the globe on renewable and use carbon capture and other cleaner methods with what we have then we can do very well with the anthropogenic global warming issue.

Despite efforts to use carbon capture and storage as a distraction, there's no getting around the massive environmental impact of Canada's tar sands: At least 5 times the carbon emissions as conventional oil, huge water pollution

Not exact matches

«As the Alberta Electricity System Operator has noted, coal - fired power with carbon capture and storage is a far more expensive option to reduce carbon pollution compared to using natural gas, wind, solar and hydro power.

Additionally, we also aggressively recycle our brewing byproduct — our spent grain and yeast is sent to local dairy farmers for use as animal feed or soil fertilizers and we've invested in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery systems that allow us to capture and reuse CO2 for carbonation and other brewery related processes.

Researchers have now found a way to use carbon dioxide to enhance and expand geothermal energy, which can offset the costs of capturing and storing the gas.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

As an example, I firmly believe that there is great promise in advanced technologies, such as Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), that can allow us to use our domestic coal and natural gas with greatly reduced carbon emissions.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

The system also uses much less water than other types of carbon capture proposals, the company said.

Any extra carbon dioxide released from using natural gas this way also would be captured, Leo said.

The researchers used a variety of precursors to synthesize porous carbon - based sorbent materials chemically activated at temperatures between 500 and 800 degrees Celsius (932 to 1472 degrees Fahrenheit) and carefully measured their carbon dioxide - capturing capacities at pressures between 0 and 30 bar.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

Even in a cool climate as in Finland, algae might be used to produce biochemicals and biofuels, besides use in capture of industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

To make this assessment, Sutton - Grier and her colleagues evaluated how effectively each ecosystem captures carbon dioxide — for example, by plants using it to build their branches and leaves — and how long the carbon is stored, either in plant tissues or in soils.

While some experts think these solutions are impractical for wide - scale use, others say there is a need for additional tests capturing carbon dioxide from cement, one of the highest - emitting industries.

Current widespread methods of carbon capture, such as amine treating, use liquid solutions for the treatment of emissions from chemical plants and refineries.

In his letter on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), Graham Cox suggests it could be used to fertilise surface waters with nutrient - rich deep water to promote plankton growth for carbon capture (1 December, p 31).

The study's second most promising climate engineering strategy, after carbon sequestration, was carbon capture and storage, particularly when the technique is used near where fuels are being refined.

In view of the need to capture carbon and your report on rice plants growing five times larger when given a microbiotic fungus (28 July, p 8), what a temptation to use this on giant sequoia, even if it would be a long - term experiment.

Chloroplasts use the light energy they capture to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars.

This new look at MOFs led to a discovery that holds promise for the improved design of MOFs tailored specifically for carbon capture, or for the use of hydrogen and natural gas (methane) fuels.

The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, says «widespread» use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will probably be needed to stop the world warming by 2 °C, the politically agreed danger threshold.

The material could be used for capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and especially to clean emissions.

Using a modified atomic force microscope, Leo Gross of IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues captured bonds in three different carbon molecules, including the flat form of hexabenzocoronene pictured above (Science, doi.org/jcr).

A portion of the carbon dioxide is captured and used to produce urea (CH4N2O), the most widely used nitrogen fertilizer worldwide.

And physicist Olgica Bakajin of Hayward, Calif. — based Porifera, Inc., plans to use membranes composed of carbon nanotubes to separate CO2 from the other gases — using carbon to capture carbon.

«Ordinary clay can be used for carbon capture.»

The prospects of meaningfully tackling climate change by capturing and using carbon dioxide seem slim, as Michael Marshall states (17...

«Most scenarios consistent with 2 °C used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report largely depend on carbon capture and storage (CCS), both from fossil - fuel combustion and, particularly, bioenergy,» said Andrew.

Less work required to capture the same amount of CO2 results in lowering the cost of using CCUS technology, making coal - to - chemicals factories a promising sector to reduce carbon emissions.

Current carbon - capture technology uses caustic amine - based solvents to separate CO2 from the flue gas escaping a facility's smokestacks.

The microencapsulated carbon sorbents (MECS) achieve an order - of - magnitude increase in CO2 absorption rates compared to sorbents currently used in carbon capture.

To do this, facilities would have to incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in their construction, a promising but relatively new method of capturing CO2 and either storing it underground or using the gas for industrial purposes.

Many environmental groups oppose nuclear power and any use of coal, even with carbon capture and sequestration technology.

Long has been exploring MOFs as gas adsorbers for a decade, hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen - fueled vehicles, or to catalyze gas reactions for industry.

«Some novel research on nanomaterials used to capture carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels actually led us to this discovery,» said McGrail.

Scientists in Australia are trialling a carbon capture system that turns emissions into green building materials, while a consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland says it has created a more economical and ecological carbon capture system for use at power plants.

Is the record - breaking heat over the United States during 2012 captured by simulations using the major carbon producers?

Other higher - tech options include using chemicals to absorb CO2 from the air, or burning plants for energy and capturing the CO2 that would otherwise be released, then storing it permanently deep below the ground, called bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

SABIC affiliate United Jubail Petrochemical Company hopes to capture about 1,500 tons a day of carbon dioxide from ethylene plants, and use it in SABIC petrochemical plants, Reuters reports.

The filters are heated and the carbon dioxide is removed and piped into nearby greenhouses, which will use 900 metric tons of captured carbon to grow crops each year.