Supercritical CO2 power cycles are gaining increasing attention in the engineering world. sCO2 is an ideal working fluid for use in power generating turbines because it offers high efficiency in a compact footprint and can be matched to many different heat sources. sCO2 power turbines could potentially replace steam cycles in a wide variety of…
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NET Power, a young company from Durham, NC recently announced they will construct the first of a kind natural gas fueled power generation system with zero air emissions and complete carbon capture. NET Power’s Allam Cycle technology combines oxy-fuel combustion with a supercritical CO2 turbine to create power generation at better efficiencies than natural gas…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, July 15, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, July 18, 2014 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) introduces U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew (L) to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound on July 10, 2014 in Beijing, China. China is the world’s largest coal producer and consumer and…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, July 11, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, July 16 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed new carbon emission standards for fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The rules for new build power plants fall under Section 111(b) and are known as the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS). This…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, July 9, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, July 14, 2014 NEORI, the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative is organized and staffed by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and the Great Plains Institute. NEORI has authored a series of innovative policy proposals to promote the use of carbon capture and sequestration, CCS,…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, July 2, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, July 7, 2014 In the past I have been extremely skeptical of carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, but recently my opinion has evolved based on the sober conclusion that hydrocarbon fuels simply are not going away. Both supply and demand for coal, oil and gas continue to…
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Continue reading →Breaking Energy, Feb. 5, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, Feb 10 In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law an amendment to the Clean Air Act that mandated emissions reductions of the harmful pollutant sulfur dioxide, SO2, from coal fired power plants. The government did not instruct industry how they were to achieve the…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, Jan. 30, 2014 (.pdf) Novomer is a small start-up chemistry company developing novel methods for converting waste carbon dioxide, CO2, into useful plastics, polymers and chemical intermediates. Novomer has developed proprietary catalysts that react with CO2 and allow it to bond with other molecules. CO2 is a difficult molecule to work with for the…
Continue reading →This article was published at Breaking Energy, January 22, 2014 (.pdf) Joule is a biotech firm developing a breakthrough photosynthesis based system for the production of liquid fuels using biocatalysts fueled by sunlight and carbon dioxide. The Joule process looks like many of the algal biofuel processes from the outside, but under the hood it is completely…
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