sept.
09
2008 | Alstom ahead of the curve for CO2 capture and storage
Alstom announces a major milestone in the field of carbon capture and storage (CCS) with the inauguration of the world’s first pilot plant based on Alstom’s oxy-combustion technology. The 30 MW coal-fired pilot project, located at Vattenfall’s Schwarze Pumpe facility, Germany, commences operation on 9th September 2008.
Alstom is committed to developing technologies that provide affordable and clean power and thus contribute to mitigating global warming. Technologies that enable carbon-free electricity from fossil fuels are key to reducing CO2 emissions, and as a global leader in power generation, Alstom is focusing on two such technologies: to capture CO2 : oxy-combustion and post combustion.
Oxy-combustion is a process that burns coal using oxygen instead of air, creating an exhaust stream of relatively pure carbon dioxide that can easily be captured and stored underground. The key advantage of Alstom’s oxy-combustion technology is that it will be applicable to new coal plants as well as retrofits of existing facilities.
Philippe Joubert, Alstom’s executive vice-president and president of Alstom Power Systems, said: “In the mission to develop new ways of generating electricity with minimal environmental impact, Alstom is ahead of the technological curve for CO2 capture. We are very pleased and proud that Vattenfall has selected our technology, and this inauguration represents the first results of our fruitful collaboration.”
The Schwarze Pumpe project represents another achievement in a series of Alstom breakthroughs in CCS under development worldwide. These developments include oxy-combustion with two pilot plants in Europe; post-combustion with five pilot plants based on chilled ammonia in the US and Europe, and a research programme to develop advanced amines in the US.
Source : Communiqué ALSTOM
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