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Perspectives Of Pre-Combustion Ccs Systems For Central Europe, Monika Vitvarova, Vaclav Novotny

CO2 Summit II: Technologies and Opportunities

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has a potential to play a significant role in the future of power generation in Europe, at least in a short to intermediate term. Among the reasons are necessity and also growing political willingness to limit the CO2 emissions while it appears that fossil fuels are to remain an important source for fuel and electricity production. CCS technologies however mean inevitable technical, energy and economic penalty, especially since most common fossil fuel for power generation in the Central Europe is lignite.

We are presenting the focus and first results of a recently initiated Norway Grants …

Combined Magnesium Oxide/Water Gas Shift-Based Co2 Capture Process, Santosh Ganwal

CO2 Summit II: Technologies and Opportunities

Southern Research is developing a combined magnesium oxide (MgO) CO₂ sorbent/water gas shift (WGS)-catalyst-based CO₂ capture process for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants. A heat-exchanger reactor with a highly efficient heat management capability is being developed for simultaneous CO₂ capture and WGS to convert CO to CO₂ and H₂ and capture more than 90 % or more of the carbon from coal gasifier syngas. Simultaneous heat management and reaction allows the maintenance of thermodynamically favorable reaction temperatures for both steps. Also, by simultaneously converting the CO to CO₂ over the shift catalyst, …