DOE signs deal to build CO2 capture system

The project, which will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, was selected under the DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, a collaboration between the federal government and private industry working towards low-emission, coal-based power generation technology.

The project team intends to demonstrate that post-combustion carbon capture can be economically applied to existing power plants — particularly those having the opportunity to sequester CO₂ in nearby oil fields — and the viability of sequestration in such formations. The technology would apply to many additional coal-based electric power plants in the US and throughout the world.

The system will employ Fluor’s Econamine FG Plus technology to capture at least 90 per cent of the CO₂ from a 60MW flue gas stream of the 617MW Unit 7 at the WA Parish Generating Station in Thompsons, Texas.

Fluor’s Econamine FG Plus CO₂ capture system is said to feature advanced process design and techniques, which lower the energy consumption of existing amine-based CO₂ capture processes by more than 20 per cent.