Clean coal news

The Coal Authority has welcomed new contractors onto its latest 4-year framework to help design and build mine water treatment schemes throughout Britain.

Anne-Claire Howard, Executive Director of Bettercoal, has been appointed by the Global Sustainability Standard Board to the working group that will lead the development of GRI Sector Standards for Oil, Gas and Coal.

DOE and 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.

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have recently taken a step toward fossil-free steelmaking with the start-up of HYBRIT’s globally unique pilot plant for the production of fossil-free sponge iron.

NETL researchers have developed a method to custom-formulate low-cost membranes to more effectively separate carbon dioxide from nitrogen in a high volume of flue gas.

The Norwegian state and the industry partners Total, Shell and Equinor have signed the agreements that ensure continued operation of Technology Centre Mongstad from now until the end of 2023.

Trials using fossil-free fuels in LKAB’s pellet plant have produced successful results within the framework of the HYBRIT initiative.

The US Department of Energy has recently selected two projects to receive approximately US$2 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development.

In the latest move to tackle climate change by US federal policy makers, the Global CCS Institute welcomes the release of the 2020 Climate Crisis Action Plan.

Kevin Summ, Anguil Environmental Systems, USA, outlines a solution for harnessing power from ventilation air methane.