Innovation & Infrastructure

Using existing natural gas pipelines located near the United Kingdom’s industrial centers in Scotland could decrease the expense of transporting captured CO2 to offshore storage, according to an analysis issued Monday by Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage. “Our study shows that it is possible to capture and transport significant amounts of CO2 from industrial clusters […]

The most disappointing decision the United Kingdom’s Conservative government has made in the energy sector was its decision to end the nation’s £1 billion carbon capture and storage commercialization competition, according to a report issued Friday by the U.K. Trades Union Congress. “The TUC believes this decision was a huge mistake. The question, however, is […]

Captured carbon has a distinct “chemical fingerprint” based on the source from which it was collected, according to research issued Sunday by the University of Edinburgh and Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage. The researchers found that carbon captured from a coal-fired power plant, for example, will have a slightly different chemical makeup than carbon captured […]

The Department of Energy on Tuesday announced the selection of six projects dealing with advanced turbine and supercritical CO2-based power cycles to receive a total of $30 million in research funding from the National Energy Technology Laboratory. “The use of these power cycles are attractive in comparison to steam because the thermophysical properties of sCO2 […]

Had the United Kingdom followed through with its £1 billion carbon capture and storage commercialization competition, the nation stood to reach its long-term climate goals £30 billion cheaper, according to an analysis issued Wednesday by the National Audit Office. The “[Department of Energy and Climate Change’s] bid for power sector CCS showed a return of […]

Chemical company BASF and technology company The Linde Group said Tuesday they successfully completed a pilot technology project at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC), capturing 30 tons of CO2 at a purity rate of more than 99.9 percent. The companies have been testing at the NCCC, a Department of Energy research facility operated by […]

On the cusp of the expiration of its cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy, Summit Power was able to find a way to buy itself a little more time. The cooperative agreement, for Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project, was due to expire July 15 when Summit requested an informal dispute resolution, extending the agreement […]

Quebec-based carbon capture technology developer CO2 Solutions Thursday announced the issuance of a new U.S. patent entitled Process for Desorbing CO2 from Ion-Rich Mixture with Micro-Particles Comprising Biocatalysts. The patent expands the portfolio of CO2 Solutions enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology. “This patent is yet another element in our robust intellectual property portfolio which we believe […]

The long-delayed Kemper County Energy Facility has begun producing syngas from lignite coal, developer Mississippi Power announced Friday. “Producing syngas from Mississippi’s own abundant natural resource – lignite – should be encouraging to our customers, communities and energy companies around the world. This proves that Kemper’s technology can provide a way forward for coal and […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking potential providers capable of offering technical support on data for infrastructure cost and construction and maintenance estimates, according to a sources sought notice posted last week. The notice said NNSA is interested in businesses with experience in providing building construction and sustainment cost data; developing federal infrastructure […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has formally amended its approach to meeting enriched uranium requirements at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee by upgrading some existing enriched uranium processing facilities and constructing a multi-building Uranium Processing Facility (UPF). An amended record of decision published Tuesday represents the final step in the process to […]

Many carbon capture utilization and storage demonstration projects have been proposed over the years, but few have broken ground, and even fewer have come to fruition. However, lessons can be learned from even the shortest-lived effort, according to Howard Herzog, a senior research engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an extensive review of […]

Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Wednesday introduced legislation extending and expanding the section 45Q tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration and utilization. “Preventing the worst of climate change will mean deploying a broad range of technologies to reduce carbon emissions,” Whitehouse said in a prepared statement “This bill would provide a […]

It is possible to determine the amount of CO2 stored underground in reservoirs by testing the oxygen concentration of the reservoir water, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh. Conducting research at an underground storage site in the Otway Basin, in southeastern Australia, the researchers “found that the reservoir’s waters changed their oxygen […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has formally amended its approach to meeting enriched uranium requirements at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee by upgrading some existing enriched uranium processing facilities and constructing a multi-building Uranium Processing Facility (UPF). An amended record of decision published Tuesday represents the final step in the process to […]

Those interested in taking part in the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition have until Friday to register and submit their entries. The competition, which is open to the public and seeks innovative ways to use carbon dioxide, consists of two tracks: one that will test developmental technologies on emissions from a coal-fired power […]

Burning hydrogen instead of natural gas for heating would prove an extremely efficient way to reduce the United Kingdom’s emissions, but only if carbon capture and storage is implemented at the hydrogen production facilities, according to Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage’s response to Northern Gas Works’ H21 Leeds City Gate report, released Monday. “[A]s the […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking potential providers capable of offering technical support on data for infrastructure cost and construction and maintenance estimates, according to a sources sought notice posted last week. The notice said NNSA is interested in businesses with experience in providing building construction and sustainment cost data; developing federal infrastructure […]

Following the publication of a scathing article about Mississippi Power’s Kemper County Energy Facility carbon capture and storage project, The New York Times opened its opinion pages to four CCS experts to weigh in on the value of the technology and the potential obstacles to its deployment. The newspaper on Thursday published four editorials from […]

The United Kingdom must act quickly to develop a new plan for deployment of carbon capture and storage technology following cancellation of its £1 billion CCS Commercialization Competition, John Gummer, chairman of the U.K.’s Climate Change Committee, told Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd Wednesday in a letter. “A strategy should […]

The Petroleum Technology Research Center and the CO2 Commonwealth Research Center (CO2CRC) on Tuesday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) “to prepare and execute joint research, facilitate the exchange of scientists and technical personnel, and encourage dedicated CO2 storage on regional, national, and international scales,” related to the Aquistore CO2 storage project […]

Archer Daniels Midland Co., developer of the Illinois Industrial CCS Project, has officially joined the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, the institute announced Wednesday. “ADM has been a leader in CCS development for the past nine years at their corn-to-ethanol production facility in Decatur, Illinois, United States. It is a particularly exciting time as […]

Industrial gas and equipment supplier Air Products and Chemicals has captured and shipped its 3 millionth metric ton of CO2 at its hydrogen production facility in Port Arthur, Texas, the Department of Energy Announced in a blog post Thursday. “This achievement highlights the ongoing success of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project sponsored by […]

Chemists from the University of York in the United Kingdom have developed a new way to capture carbon from various industrial sources by using seaweed and other forms of waste biomass. The university developed “Starbons,” mesoporous materials derived from polysaccharides composed of waste biomass, 10 years ago and have now discovered a way to use […]

Colorado-based ION Engineering has sealed a deal with Norway’s Technology Center Mongstad (TCM) to test the company’s solvent carbon capture technology. ““TCM provides ION with tremendous opportunity for advancement of our technology.  At the 12 MWe scale, TCM is a vital step in the scale-up process as ION continues to make positive strides towards world-wide […]

The projected price tag for Southern Co.’s Kemper County Energy Facility carbon capture and storage project in Mississippi now sits at $6.75 billion after a new budget overage of $9.8 million, the company reported Friday in a monthly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The project was initially billed at $2.4 billion. The price […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has dedicated a new supercomputing facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. The $9.8 million facility houses supercomputing systems that support the agency’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, a key component of the Stockpile Stewardship Program that certifies the reliability and effectiveness of the U.S. […]

While the cancellation of the United Kingdom’s £1 billion carbon capture and storage commercialization competition in November was disappointing, there are still lessons to be learned from the two projects that remained in the running at the time, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Carbon Capture & Storage Association. The report found that […]

The Department of Energy will issue a final determination on the fate of its cooperative agreement with Summit Power’s Texas Clean Energy Project on July 15, a DOE spokesperson told GHG Daily on Tuesday. “The Department of Energy (DOE) informed Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC, (STCE) on June 10, 2016, of its pending intention to […]

Discussions of the importance of carbon capture and storage in the fight against climate change often center on its use in energy generation, but just as important, if not more so, is the technology’s potential to decarbonize the industrial sector, according to two papers issued Tuesday by the Global CCS Institute. “If we want to […]