DOE said that the selections will focus on improving efficiency and reducing the added costs to electricity at power plants with carbon capture systems to less than 30% for a new pulverized coal plant and 10% for a new advanced gasification plant.
The selections will focus on bench-scale and slipstream-scale development (0.5MWe to 5MWe) and testing of advanced post-combustion CO2 capture technologies that include membranes, solvents and solid sorbents.
The Obama administration has made a goal of developing cost-effective deployment of CCS technologies within 10 years, with an objective of bringing five to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016.
Steven Chu, secretary of DOE, said: “Charting a path toward clean coal is essential to achieving our goals of providing clean energy, creating American jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It will also help position the US as a leader in the global clean energy race.”
