Department of Energy invests US$72 million in carbon capture technologies
Published by Jessica Casey,
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World Coal,
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have announced the award of approximately US$72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding US$51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. DOE is awarding a total ofUS $21 million to 18 projects for technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, a process known as ‘direct air capture.’
“The projects selected as a part of this research will help us develop the technological solutions needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” said Secretary of Energy, Dan Brouillette. “This is critical to balancing our nation’s energy use while continuing to lead the world in emissions reductions.”
Through DOE’s carbon capture, utilization and storage R&D programme, the Office of Fossil Energy has a comprehensive portfolio of technological solutions that help keep CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere. Many of these R&D efforts can be applied across both the energy and the industrial sectors.
“The primary mission of our office is to ensure that the US can continue to rely on its fossil fuel resources for clean and secure energy. The advancement of carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture, contributes to that mission,” said Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Steven Winberg. “Our ultimate goal is to mature these technologies so that they can be commercialised and brought to market.”
Under the first FOA, ‘Capture R&D: Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources’, DOE selected nine projects to receive US$51 million for cost-shared R&D. These efforts aim to design initial engineering studies to develop technologies to capture CO2 generated as a byproduct of manufacturing at industrial sites.
DOE also selected 18 projects to receive US$21 million under the second FOA, ‘Novel Research and Development for the Direct Capture of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere’. These projects will focus on the development of new materials for use in direct air capture and will also complete field testing.
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