Funded with more than $575m from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), these R&D projects complement the industrial demonstration projects already being funded through the Recovery Act.
This program supports the country’s goal of cost-effective deployment of carbon capture and storage within 10 years.
The selections include projects from four different areas of CCS R&D, which include testing of advanced gasification technologies, advanced turbo-machinery to lower emissions from industrial sources, post-combustion CO2 capture with increased efficiencies and decreased costs and geologic storage site characterization.
The department is awarding $312m from the Recovery Act for expanding three advanced projects to accelerate the development of industrial carbon capture and storage technologies at large-scale.
These projects support the department’s aim of developing industrial facilities with near-zero emissions by reducing the cost and improving the efficiency of capturing CO2.
The projects will accelerate the technology development by conducting tests at larger prototype, engineering scales.
Following successful completion, these advanced technologies will be ready for scale-up to commercial size.
