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U.S. Grants $575 Million to 22 Carbon-Capture Research Projects
2010-09-08 00:48:18.599 GMT
By Andrew Herndon
Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Department of Energy will
give more than $575 million to 22 projects for research and
development on new ways to capture carbon emissions from
industrial sources.
Research will focus on gasification technologies, post-
combustion carbon capture, new types of machinery and engines,
and characterization of geologic storage sites for carbon
dioxide, the Energy Department said today in a statement.
Funding will be split among those four categories, with $90
million going toward gasification projects, $312 million for
developing capture technologies, $123 million for machinery and
$50 million for identifying storage sites, the agency said.
Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina was offered
the largest grant, at more than $168 million, to build a system
for purifying and removing contaminants from hot gases. The
institute will build and test a coal gasification system at a
30-megawatt- to 50-megawatt-equivalent scale that also
integrates carbon capture and storage.
The technology has a number of potential uses, according to
the Energy Department, including the production of hydrogen for
use in petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, plastic
manufacturing, or for iron ore reduction.
Praxair Inc. will receive as much as $35 million to expand
development of a membrane technology that it says can reduce by
about 75 percent the power cost associated with producing oxygen
for oxy-fuel combustion. Oxy-fuel combustion produces only
carbon dioxide and water, which can be easily separated, leaving
a stream of carbon dioxide that can be stored.
Hydrogen-Fueled Technology
Siemens Energy, a unit of Siemens AG, and GE Energy, a unit
of General Electric Co., were picked to receive more than $30
million each to develop advanced hydrogen-fueled gas turbine
technology to increase the efficiency of various industrial
processes that produce hydrogen and also require on-site power.
There are 10 grants for geological-site characterization at
$5 million each that will go to projects including affiliates of
the University of Tennessee, the University of Kansas, the
University of Texas at Austin, the University of Utah and
University of Wyoming.
Final award amounts for the projects, located in 15 states,
may vary and will be determined through further negotiations,
the Energy Department said.
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