The Energy Department of the United-States (US DoE) announced the selection of 18 projects across the USA to research innovative, second-generation technologies that will help improve the efficiency and drive down costs of carbon capture processes for new and existing coal-fired power plants. Out of US$84m investment, the US DoE will dedicates US$71.5m to post-combustion CO2 capture technologies and US$12.3m to pre-combustion CO2 capture technologies.
Projects will conduct carbon capture research for two different fossil power generation processes. For combustion-based power plants, research will focus on more efficiently capturing carbon emissions post combustion. For gasification-based electric power plants, which break down coal into its chemical constituents before any combustion takes place, research will improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of pre-combustion carbon capture.
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