The new system would be used to test and optimize pressurized oxy-combustion technology of UPA for clean coal power generation. The UPA is a JV between ThermoEnergy and ITEA.
Recently, UPA announced it has received a $1m Phase 1 award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to help fund the project under a special program to advance clean coal and carbon capture technologies.
Construction of the bench scale unit is expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2012 at ThermoEnergy’s 48,000ft² manufacturing facility in Massachusetts, US. Fabrication and assembly would be completed in the Q1 of 2013.
The testing, which will be based on techno-economic models provided by MIT, is likely to take place at the new Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions laboratory at Georgia Tech in the US.
ThermoEnergy chairman and CEO Cary Bullock said, "ThermoEnergy continues to find new applications for the company’s technology and expertise in the energy sector, including oil & gas hydrofracking, biogas production, and power generation."
