Clean Energy Systems, Inc., "Kimberlina:
A zero-emissions demonstration plant" (June 2007)
http://www.cleanenergysystems.com/news/june_07.html
Clean Energy Systems Inc. (CES) has developed a zero-emissions power
generation technology by integrating a component proven in the aerospace
industry with conventional power plant equipment. Its most distinctive
element (the third box from the left) is an oxy-combustor, similar to one
used in rocket engines, that generates steam by burning a clean, gaseous
fuel in the presence of gaseous oxygen and water. The clean fuel is prepared
by processing a conventional fossil fuel such as coal-derived syngas,
refinery residues, biomass or biodigester gas, or natural or landfill gas.
IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/index.html
IEA GHG is an international
collaboration which aims to (1) evaluate technologies for reducing emissions
of greenhouse gases; (2) disseminate the results of these studies; and (3)
identify targets for research, development and demonstration and promote the
appropriate work. The IEA GHG R&D Programme operates under an Implementing
Agreement provided by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Its main
activities concern methods of reducing GHG emissions, particularly CO2 from fossil fuels.
Much attention has been given to the option of capture and storage or
utilisation of CO2.
This website is designed to provide
details about IEA GHG, its main activities, and the conferences they
organise. In addition, it provides reference material on issues such as
climate change and the need for emission reduction which underpins our
continued existence.
IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme, “IEA
GHG Weyburn CO2 Monitoring & Storage Project”
http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/glossies/weyburn.pdf
This report provides a summary on the
achievements on the first phase of this major international action to
monitor injected CO2 in a depleted oil field. The project has been managed
by PTRC in coordination with ENCANA. IEA GHG supported the technical
programme of the project.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
“IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage - Summary for
Policymakers” (September 2005)
http://arch.rivm.nl/env/int/ipcc/pages_media/SRCCS-final/SRCCS_SummaryforPolicymakers.pdf
This extensive IPCC report was written
by over a hundred experts from around the world, and provides a wealth of
information on how to capture, transport and store CO2, as well as on costs
and potential for mitigation of climate change. It also discusses which
risks may be expected and whether CCS can be compatible with current legal
frameworks. The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) was approved in a three-day
process involving over a hundred governments. The complete final report is 443
pages, and was published later in 2005; it is available at
http://arch.rivm.nl/env/int/ipcc/pages_media/
SRCCS-final/IPCCSpecialReportonCarbondioxideCaptureandStorage.htm.
Kansas Geological Survey, “NatCarb: A
National Look at Carbon Sequestration”
http://www.natcarb.org/
NATCARB is a project to
explore geological sequestration of carbon through linking geological and
emission databases from several regional centers into a single interactive
mapping system. NATCARB, a project funded by DOE’s National Energy
Technology Laboratory, is an extension of
MIDCARB, a project that linked
databases from 5 state geological surveys in the Midwest. NATCARB allows
each partner to retain ownership and control of their own data, while
allowing visitors to explore data across partner boundaries.
National Coal Council, “Research and
Development Needs for the Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide as Part of a
Carbon Management Strategy,” (May 2000)
http://www.nationalcoalcouncil.org/Documents/Executive%20Report%20May%202000.pdf
The National Coal Council (NCC)
is a Federal Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Energy. The NCC's sole
purpose is to advise, inform, and make recommendations on matters regarding
the coal industry, as requested by the Secretary of Energy. This NCC report focuses on
CO2 sequestration opportunities and offers
recommendations on needed research and development to bring cost-effective
competitive sequestration technologies to the market. It is imperative that
CO2 sequestration and
generation efficiency become high priorities if the goal is to manage carbon
in the atmosphere while providing low-cost, reliable energy to drive the
national as well as global economy. The NCC proposes a three-part management
strategy to accomplish this task. In order to successfully implement this
strategy, research is needed to verify the feasibility of the numerous CO2 sequestration
options available.
The Pembina
Institute, "Carbon Capture and Storage: An Arrow in the Quiver or a Silver
Bullet to Combat Climate Change — A Canadian Primer" ((Nov. 2005)
http://www.pembina.org/pub/584
This 77-page
PDF report reviews technologies
to capture carbon dioxide from point sources, transportation of CO2
to injection sites and the potential for storage in deep saline aquifers,
depleted oil and gas reservoirs and coal seams as well as its use for
enhanced oil recovery. The risks of carbon capture and storage (CCS) are
examined and its role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Canadian and
global storage and sequestration policy and initiatives are described.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil
Energy, and the National Energy
Technology Laboratory, “Carbon Sequestration Technology Roadmap and Program
Plan 2007,”
http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/refshelf/project%20portfolio/2007/2007Roadmap.pdf
The Carbon Sequestration
Technology Roadmap and Program Plan represents a general consensus to date on what major
science and technology pathways have potential for achieving the goals of
carbon sequestration. The implementation of these pathways—how the work will
be accomplished—will be carried out by various stakeholders. The roadmap
will evolve as more information becomes available from ongoing policy
analysis and technology planning efforts.
U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology
Laboratory (NETL), “CO2 Capture and Geologic Sequestration: Progress through
Partnership" (Workshop Summary Report, 18 pages, Sept. 28-30, 1999)
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/sequestration/publications/Project_Reports/Wkshp_Sum_Short_Version.pdf
The workshop was jointly
sponsored by BP Amoco, the U.S. DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy, and the
International Energy Agency’s Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA/GHG). CO2 Capture and
Geologic Sequestration: Progress through Partnership was a collaborative
workshop to create new solutions to the challenge of CO2 capture and geologic sequestration.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy,
“Climate Technology: DOE Readies First Big U.S. Projects in
CO2 Capture and Storage,”
Fossil Energy Techline,
August 3,
2007
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/news/techlines/2007/07062-Phase_III_Sequestration_Projects_P.html
The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing to commission this year
America's first large-scale demonstrations of
CO2 capture and deep geologic
storage in fulfillment of a commitment announced last October to Phase III
of the Carbon Sequestration Regional Partnerships Program. The projects
could lead to a tripling of the world's present large-scale demonstrations.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil
Energy, “Carbon Capture Research”
http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/sequestration/capture/index.html
Examples of DOE activities in
carbon capture include research on revolutionary improvements in CO2 separation and
capture technologies, development of retrofittable CO2 reduction and capture options for existing large
point sources of CO2
emissions, and integration of CO2
capture with advanced power cycles and technologies and with environmental
control technologies for criteria pollutants.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil
Energy, “FutureGen Clean Coal Projects”
http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/powersystems/futuregen/index.html
FutureGen
is an initiative to equip multiple new clean coal power plants with advanced
carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. FutureGen's
restructured approach proposes federal funding to demonstrate
cutting-edge CCS technology at multiple commercial-scale integrated
gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) coal power plants. It includes engagement
with the international community which will remain integral to advancing CCS
technology on a global scale. Under this approach, multiple commercial
plants would each produce at least 300 megawatts of electricity and jointly
these projects will capture and safely sequester at least double the amount
of carbon dioxide annually compared to the concept announced in 2003.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
Fossil Energy, “Geologic Sequestration Research”
http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/sequestration/geologic/index.html
Carbon dioxide sequestration in geologic
formations includes oil and gas reservoirs, unmineable coal seams, and deep
saline reservoirs. The primary goal of the Energy Department's sequestration
research is to understand the behavior of CO2 when
stored in geologic formations. This information is key to ensure that
sequestration will not impair the geologic integrity of an underground
formation and that CO2 storage is secure and environmentally acceptable.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, NCCTI
Energy Technologies Group, “CO2 Capture and Storage in Geologic Formations” (Revised
Draft, 08-Jan-2002)
http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/refshelf/CS-NCCTIwhitepaper.pdf
On June 11, 2001 President
Bush directed the Secretaries of Energy and Commerce, along with the
Administrator of the EPA, to develop a National Climate Change Technology
Initiative (NCCTI). This report is one of eight energy-related white papers
produced in response to the guidance for the NCCTI white paper. This 34-page white
paper, revised as of January 2002, covers the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2)
from current and planned fossil energy systems and its direct sequestration
in geologic structures.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil
Energy, “Ocean Sequestration Research”
http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/sequestration/ocean/index.html
USDOE’s web page gives an overview of
research into ocean sequestration and provides links to similar topics.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil
Energy, “Statement
of Thomas D. Shope, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil
Energy, before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Committee on
Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives", March 6, 2007
http://fossil.energy.gov/news/testimony/2007/070306-Shope_Testimony.html
Testimony discussing the general subject
of carbon sequestration. Describes DOE's R&D program overview, regional
activities, international activities, and achievements and challenges in the
different program areas.
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