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US Recovery Act Funding boosts industrial CCS
- 13 years ago (2010-09-08)
- Junior Isles
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the selection of 22 projects that will accelerate carbon capture and storage (CCS) research and development for industrial sources.
Funded with more than $575 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, these R&D projects complement the industrial demonstration projects already being funded through the Recovery Act.
Together, the projects represent an unprecedented investment in the development of clean coal technologies. The programme supports President Barack Obama’s goal of cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.
“This is a major step forward in the fight to reduce carbon emissions from industrial plants. These new technologies will not only help fight climate change, they will create jobs now and help position the United States to lead the world in clean coal technologies, which will only increase in demand in the years ahead,” said Secretary Chu.
The selections include projects from four different areas of CCS research and development:
1) large scale testing of advanced gasification technologies;
2) advanced turbo-machinery to lower emissions from industrial sources;
3) post-combustion CO
2
capture with increased efficiencies and decreased costs; and
4) geologic storage site characterisation.
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