Download or read book FutureGen and the Department of Energy s Advanced Coal Programs written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FutureGen and the Department of Energy's advanced coal programs : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, March 11, 2009.
Download or read book FutureGen and the Department of Energy s Advanced Coal Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007-2011). Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FutureGen and the Department of Energy s Advanced Coal Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Department of Energy s FutureGen Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clean Coal written by Mark Gaffigan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal-fired power plants generate about 1/2 of the nation's electricity and about 1/3 of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which contribute to climate change. In 2003, the DoE initiated FutureGen -- a commercial-scale, coal-fired power plant to incorporate integrated gasification combined cycle, an advanced generating technology, with carbon capture and storage. DoE's cost share was 74%, and industry partners agreed to fund the rest. Concerned about escalating costs, DoE restructured FutureGen. This report examines: (1) the original and restructured programs' goals; (2) similarities and differences between the new FutureGen and other DoE CCS programs; and (3) if the restructuring decision was based on sufficient info. Illus.
Download or read book The Passing of FutureGen How the World s Premier Clean Coal Technology Project Came to Be Abandoned by the Department of Energy written by Committee on Science and Technology and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President George W. Bush announced the FutureGen initiative in February of 2003, he described it as a 10-year, $1 billion, government/private partnership to build a coal-based, zero-emissions electricity and hydrogen producing power plant. It would provide the American people and the world with advanced technologies that would help meet the world's energy needs, and would improve the global environment for future generations. Spencer Abraham, then-Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), went even further. This "bold step" would turn coal from an "environmentally challenging energy resource into an environmentally benign one" and demonstrate the best technologies the world had to offer.
Download or read book Clean Coal DoE Should Prepare a Comprehensive Analysis of the Relative Costs Benefits and Risks of a Range of Options for FutureGen written by Mark Gaffigan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses a recent report on the Dept. of Energy's (DoE) decision to restructure the FutureGen program. The original FutureGen plant was to capture and store underground about 90% of its CO2 emissions. Concerned about escalating costs, DoE announced in Jan. 2008 that it had decided to restructure FutureGen. DoE requested supplemental info. from restructured FutureGen applicants, which will be reviewed before any selection decision. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, known as the stimulus law, provides DoE an additional $3.4 billion for "Fossil Energy R&D." Such a substantial amount of funding could significantly impact DoE's decisions about how to move forward with programs such as FutureGen.
Download or read book Clean Coal Engineering Technology written by Bruce G. Miller and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clean Coal Engineering Technology, Second Edition provides significant information on the major power generation technologies that aim to utilize coal more efficiently, and with less environmental impact. With increased coal combustion comes heightened concerns about coal's impacts on human health and climate change, so the book addresses the reduction of both carbon footprints and emissions of pollutants, such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and mercury. Part 1 provides an essential grounding in the history of coal use alongside coal chemical and physical characteristics, worldwide distribution, and health and environmental impacts. Part 2 introduces the fundamentals of the major coal utilization technologies and examines the anatomy of a coal-fired power plant before going on to provide an overview of clean coal technologies for advanced power generation. Next, users will find a group of chapters on emissions and carbon management that have been extensively enlarged and updated for the second edition, thus reflecting the ever-increasing importance of this area. The final section of the book focuses on clean coal technology programs around the world and the future role of coal in the energy mix. This fully revised and selectively expanded new edition is a valuable resource for professionals, including environmental, chemical, and mechanical engineers who seek an authoritative and thorough one-volume overview of the latest advances in cleaner power production from coal. - Provides a thorough, yet readable, one-volume guide to advanced power generation technologies for cleaner electricity production from coal - Retains the essential background information on coal characteristics and the fundamentals of coal-fired power generation - Presents extensively expanded and updated coverage on technologies for the reduction of pollutants, including particulate matter, sulfur oxides, and mercury - Emphasizes carbon capture methods, storage, and emerging technologies for the reduction of carbon footprints, alongside a discussion of coal's future in the energy mix
Download or read book Coal written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was given a mandate in the 1992 Energy Policy Act (EPACT) to pursue strategies in coal technology that promote a more competitive economy, a cleaner environment, and increased energy security. Coal evaluates DOE's performance and recommends priorities in updating its coal program and responding to EPACT. This volume provides a picture of likely future coal use and associated technology requirements through the year 2040. Based on near-, mid-, and long-term scenarios, the committee presents a framework for DOE to use in identifying R&D strategies and in making detailed assessments of specific programs. Coal offers an overview of coal-related programs and recent budget trends and explores principal issues in future U.S. and foreign coal use. The volume evaluates DOE Fossil Energy R&D programs in such key areas as electric power generation and conversion of coal to clean fuels. Coal will be important to energy policymakers, executives in the power industry and related trade associations, environmental organizations, and researchers.
Download or read book Energy and Water and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2006 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prospects for Advanced Coal Technologies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passing of FutureGen written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President George W. Bush announced the FutureGen initiative in February of 2003, he described it as a 10-year, $1 billion, government/private partnership to build a coal-based, zero-emissions electricity and hydrogen producing power plant. It would provide the American people and the world with advanced technologies that would help meet the world's energy needs, and would improve the global environment for future generations. Spencer Abraham, then-Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), went even further. This bold step would turn coal from an environmentally challenging energy resource into an environmentally benign one and demonstrate the best technologies the world had to offer. The plant would not use traditional coal technology, but would be an integrated gasification combined cycle/carbon capture and storage (IGCC/CCS) facility built at the commercial scale of 275 megawatts. It would sequester one million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, produce both electricity and hydrogen as energy sources and demonstrate the integration of commercial and untested technologies. Its results would be shared with all participants, including international parties, industry, the environmental community and the public. International participation was a core component of the project as acceptance of the projects results were deemed necessary by the Administration for building an international consensus on the role of coal and carbon sequestration in addressing global climate change and energy security. But in December of 2007, after a site in Illinois was selected by FutureGen's private industrial partners, the environmental impact statement required by the National Environmental Policy Act was completed, and the State of Illinois had accepted liability for the sequestration aspect of the project, then-DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman announced that he intended to restructure FutureGen. He would maximize the private sector role and prevent further cost escalation. The restructured FutureGen was rolled out at the end of January of 2008, but it was widely viewed as the death of the Bush initiative. Subsequent events have verified that view, as the four application, two of which have been deemed ineligible, responding to the new competition bear no resemblance to the original FutureGen and have no capability to meet the original goals.
Download or read book Clean Coal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal-fired power plants generate about one-half of the nation's electricity and about one-third of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which contribute to climate change. In 2003, the Department of Energy (DOE) initiated FutureGen--a commercial-scale, coal-fired power plant to incorporate integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), an advanced generating technology, with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The plant was to capture and store underground about 90 percent of its CO2 emissions. DOE's cost share was 74 percent, and industry partners agreed to fund the rest. Concerned about escalating costs, DOE restructured FutureGen. GAO was asked to examine (1) the original and restructured programs' goals, (2) similarities and differences between the new FutureGen and other DOE CCS programs, and (3) if the restructuring decision was based on sufficient information. GAO reviewed best practices for making programmatic decisions, FutureGen plans and budgets, and documents on the restructuring of FutureGen. GAO contacted DOE, industry partners, and experts.
Download or read book Summary of Activities of the Committee on Science and Technology U S House of Representatives for the Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prospects for Advanced Coal Technologies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of Activities of the Committee on Science and Technology U S House of Representatives for the Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007-2011) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulatory Aspects of Carbon Capture Transportation and Sequestration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
