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Babcock Power and ThermoEnergy Form Clean Coal Carbon Capture Company
Danvers MA (SPX) Mar 04, 2009 Babcock Power and ThermoEnergy have announced the formation of a limited liability company to be called Babcock-Thermo Carbon Capture LLC, to develop and commercialize a new and advanced carbon capture power plant design. Since joining forces in April of 2008, the two companies have worked together to further advance the ThermoEnergy Integrated Power System ("TIPS") technology and will now formally join forces to develop subsystems and designs for pilot plant application. This patented new technology represents a totally different thermodynamic approach in power plant design. Based on high pressure oxy-fuel chemistry, TIPS combines the combustion of carbonaceous fuels, including coal, oil, natural gas, municipal waste and biomass, into energy with near-zero air emissions and no smoke stack. In addition, it effectively captures carbon dioxide ("CO2") in clean, pressurized liquid form ready for sequestration or beneficial reuse, such as enhanced oil recovery. The TIPS technology promises to achieve greater fossil-fuel power plant thermal efficiency due to its novel and patented process design. Coupled with the recovery of pipeline quality liquid CO2, TIPS is expected to have an economic and environmental edge over competing carbon capture technologies. Babcock Power and its subsidiaries are industry leaders in the design and supply of environmental pollution controls, combustion and steam generator technology and other power plant heat exchanger products and systems. This experience will be used to design the TIPS process components and subsystems for pressurized oxy-fuel burners and combustors, heat transfer surfaces for generating superheat and reheat steam and condensing heat exchangers which will remove the products of combustion including toxic pollutants, water and CO2 as liquid streams. "The progression of the TIPS technology coincides well with the timeline of anticipated forthcoming CO2 legislation," stated James F. Wood, President and CEO of Babcock Power Inc. "As we evolve TIPS into a commercial scale product utilizing pilot plant results, Babcock-Thermo Carbon Capture LLC will be well positioned to compete in the multi-billion dollar CO2 capture market." "Planned TIPS industrial heat and power plants represent an ideal solution for many US infrastructure industries," said Dennis Cossey, Chairman and CEO of ThermoEnergy. "Not only will it allow them to switch to a cheaper fuel source, significantly lowering energy costs, but reduce the plants carbon footprint at the same time. The carbon credit offsets associated with greatly reducing green house gas emissions could eventually provide a substantial source of income should Congress enact some form of carbon tax in the coming months," said Cossey. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Schwarzenegger tells techies to go 'green'
Hanover, Germany (AFP) March 3, 2009California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off the world's biggest high-tech fair Tuesday, telling executives to seize the economic crisis as a moment to shape up and go "green". |
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