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CES Technology
Meets Market Needs |
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satisfies needs in several market sectors, including:
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- • Natural gas-fueled, zero-emission base-load
and peaking electric power plants
• Coal and biomass-fueled zero-emission power plants.
• Enhanced fossil fuel recovery (oil, natural gas,
coal-bed methane) from CO2 injection.
• Re-powering of existing fossil fuel power plants
to decrease atmospheric emissions.
• Co-production of electricity and hydrogen from
gasified solid fuel.
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Electricity
Generation |
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration
forecasts the planned U.S. capacity additions from new generators from
fossil based fuels will increase by 15,500 to 24,600 megawatts annually from 2007
through 2010 with a total of 76,500 megawatts needed during that four-year period.
Global new capacity needs for the same four-year period are expected to be approximately 280,000 megawatts. |
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Peaking Power Generation |
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“Peaking power” is required on short
notice to meet utility system demand during periods of high electricity
demand. The CES technology is well-suited for small to medium
sized peaking power plants. Its attributes are fast-start and
low capital cost. Additional benefits can accrue by using the
cold air emanating from a CES peaker plant as inlet air to co-located
gas turbines or industrial air compressors. |
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Range of Power Plant Sizes |
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Future power generation is expected to be conducted
at multi-hundred MW central power plants and at 50 – 100
MW distributed generation sites located closer to urban or industrial
load centers. CES technology is scalable and can serve a wide
range of size requirements. CES zero-emission technology will
be easier to permit and will allow installation close to the locales
of need. |
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Small
Power Plants |
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Future power generation is expected
to be conducted on a smaller scale, from distributed plants closer
to the large urban or industrial load centers. CES zero-emission
technology will be easier to permit and will allow installation
close to the locale of need, where conventional power plant technologies
would not be permitted. |
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Repower Existing Power Plants |
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CES technology can supplement or replace existing
fossil-fueled boilers by generating steam for electricity generation.
The CES-cycle reduces or eliminates atmospheric emissions including
pollutants and carbon dioxide from conventional power plants. |
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Enhanced
Hydrocarbon Recovery |
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For more than 40 years, CO2 has been injected into exhausted
oil wells to increase oil production. This enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) flooding process is in use at more than 40 oil fields
domestically, and approximately four percent of the U.S. crude
oil supply is produced from CO2 injected fields. The benefits
from this flooding in the U.S. is estimated at 150,000 barrels
per day. Extrapolating EOR to the entire U.S. oil production
capacity, total CO2 needs are equivalent to the CO2 production
from 90,000 megawatts of new gas fired power plants.
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Non-Attainment
Air Emission Regions |
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Very little new capacity is being
constructed in large urban areas due to emissions constraints,
and when combined with the bottleneck in transmission capacity,
the net effect can result in local blackouts and high energy prices.
The zero-emission aspect of CES technology allows power plants
to be sited near load centers, with reduced transmission costs
and losses. |
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Hydrogen and Electricity Co-Production |
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Gasification of solid fuels such as coal or biomass
produces a synthetic fuel (syngas) containing both carbon monoxide
and hydrogen. Hydrogen in the syngas can be separated and made
available for fuel-cell or vehicle use. The resulting hydrogen-depleted
syngas can be used in the CES oxy-fuel combustor to generate thermal
energy or electricity. |
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