Publication Overview
This workshop was the eighth in a series to discuss co-operation in development of MEA and related solvents to capture CO₂ from power plant flue gases. The previous events were in Gaithersburg, Calgary, Apeldoorn, Kyoto, Pittsburgh, Trondheim, and Vancouver. Copies of all the reports from and including the Apeldoorn meeting are available on CD
Publication Summary
Carbon dioxide capture and storage is increasingly featuring in OECD countries’ energy policies and R&D programmes as a potential contributor to climate mitigation strategies. It was a featured topic when the leaders of the G8 countries met in Scotland in July 2005. Post combustion capture allied to improved efficiency power plant looks likely to be a major element for new plant as markets develop – particularly so in developing countries where there is a clear preference for using the best established technologies for power generation. Retrofit to established plant is also technically feasible although less economically attractive for ageing, less efficient assets.
Over the five years in which this workshop series has existed, we are seeing more and more researchers coming into the field and some exciting new developments covering new solvent formulations, process engineering innovation and increasingly sophisticated process economic modelling. This report contains presentations on:
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significant scale pilot plant;
- first indicators of serious discussion about larger pilot plant on actual power stations; and
- a wish to facilitate the construction of a post-combustion capture demonstration at around the 300Mwe scale.