Clean Coal Technology

Clean Coal Technology aims to reduce sulfur, nitrogen and mercury emissions by washing and using electrostatic precipitators on coal to create clean fuel.  Flue gas is scrubbed or re-burned to reduce harmful emissions.  Carbon capture and storage technologies remove CO2 gas from the emissions and sequester it in the ground or ponds.

Clean Coal Technology News

Extension for contentious coal power plant project in Australia

10/02/2012 Australian Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has thrown a lifeline to a contentious coal-fired power plant project in Victoria...

Vattenfall halts investment in Janschwalde CCS demo

05/12/2011 Swedish utility Vattenfall has announced the termination of its planned EUR1.5bn ($2bn) investment in the high-profile carbon c...

UK opens largest carbon capture pilot plant

01/12/2011

The largest carbon capture pilot plant in the UK was opened yesterday by UK energy secretary Chris Huhne.

SSE opens 5 MW carbon capture plant in UK

30/11/2011 A carbon capture (CC) pilot plant at SSE’s Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire in the UK has opened, with a goal of cap...

Ameren backs out of clean coal project

30/11/2011 Ameren Corp has set a fresh challenge for the FutureGen clean coal project by pulling out of the initiative, which has received...

Local council seeks to block CCS plant in Scotland

04/11/2011 Planners at a Scottish council have recommended that proposals for a controversial new power station are not given the go-ahead.

'Let us drill for coal seam gas,' urges Santos chief

01/11/2011

Australian gas producer Santos expects demand for gas in the east of the country to triple over the next 10 years.

UK says £1bn CCS funding still on table despite Longannet

20/10/2011 UK energy secretary Chris Huhne said today there would be no “back-sliding” in funding carbon capture and storage projects in B...

UK’s Longannet CCS project is scrapped

20/10/2011 The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has withdrawn funding from the country’s most advanced carbon capture a...

Denmark says ‘no’ to Vattenfall’s carbon storage plan

17/10/2011 Vattenfall AB’s carbon storage plans have suffered a blow following the Danish government refusal of the Swedish utility’s appl...

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