Greenwire’s (subscription only) Daniel Cusick reported today about leaked information from a classified report. The report, prepared by DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, states that the chilled ammonia process for post-combustion carbon dioxide capture does not show “any significant improvement” over amine scrubbing.
If confirmed, this would be bad news for those companies that are still planning to build pulverized coal power plants. Gas Turbine World’s Gasification and IGCC Forum has a discussion of the issue (6 July 2007).
[...] and there’s a report linked in the Comment section is one you need to download and save. The Carbon Capture Capers post at A Significant Distraction also discusses it, but it’s not linked, said it was on [...]