Department
of Energy Awards $71 Million to Accelerate Innovative Carbon Capture Project
DOE Fossil
Energy NEWSALERT -
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today
announced that Arizona Public Service (APS),
Funding for the project expansion falls under
the ARRA’s $1.52 billion solicitation for carbon
capture and storage from industrial sources. The industrial sources include,
but are not limited to, cement plants, chemical plants, refineries, steel and
aluminum plants, manufacturing facilities, and petroleum coke-fired and other
power plants. Part of the solicitation includes innovative concepts for
beneficial CO2 reuse (CO2 mineralization, algae production, etc.) and CO2
capture from the atmosphere.
The APS project is one of two already-existing
projects in the industrial carbon capture program administered by DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy. The other, previously
announced, is a Ramgen Power Systems project to
scale-up a device that uses supersonic shockwaves to compress CO2 for capture
and storage.
Arizona Public Service will scale up a concept
for coproduction of electricity and substitute
natural gas via coal gasification, while scaling up an innovative reutilization
technology where power plant CO2 emissions are biologically captured by algae
and processed into liquid transportation fuels. APS will focus on the
engineering aspects of continuous cultivation, harvesting, and processing of
algae grown from power plant emissions.
Funding will enable APS to scale up its algae
cultivation concept by about two orders of magnitude and scale up its hydrogasification concept by one order of magnitude.
Researchers expect that the algae farm will reuse CO2 at a rate of 70 metric
tons per acre per year.
This ARRA four-year project will provide
economic stimulus to an
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