Company/Alliance: American Electric Power (AEP), Alstom, RWE, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), and Battelle Memorial Institute
Location: Mountaineer Station, New Haven, West Virginia, US
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 30 MWth using flue gas from 1,300 MW Mountaineer Plant, 100,000 tonnes of CO2 per year captured and stored
Capture Technology: Post-combustion with chilled ammonia
CO2 Fate: Sequestration into the Mt Simon Sandstone ( a deep saline formation below the site) thought to have ideal properties for storing CO2
Timing: Pilot operation (2009). Scheduled to operate for 18 months.
Motivation/Economics: The project is a combined ten-year effort with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE). Batelle The DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy contributed $7.2 million while Alstom and AEP contributed $1.4 million for the initial phases of the project. Geologic investigation of the Mountaineer site cost $4.2 million.
Comments: The pilot project in West Virginia is planned to operate for 12 to 18 months.This project will test Alstom's chilled ammonia technology for CO2 capture from flue gases particular to natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants. Meanwhile, AEP will collaborate with Babcock & Wilcox on developing oxyfuel combustion technology at its 30 MW Clean Environment Development Facility in Alliance, Ohio. The project is on schedule to come onto production in OCtober 2009.
Project Link: AEP Mountaineer project website
Other Sources and Press Release:
AEP website
Alstom Power announcement that project is on schedule
Bowden Engineering celebrate injury free Mountaineer project (June 2009)
CCS Trial coming on (April 2008)
RWE join AEP in validation of CCS technology (November 2007)
Alstom and American Electric Power sign agreement to bring CO2 capture technology to commercial scale by 2011 (March 2007)
First Utility-Scale CO2 Deployment Shows Value of Private-Public Joint Ventures (March 2007)
Drilling Begins to Evaluate W_newest Virginia Site for Carbon Sequestration (July 2003)
Battelle and Partners Lead Pioneering Study of Carbon Sequestration: A Key Climate Change Mitigation Technology (Spring 2003)
AEP powerpoint description of capture process [PDF]
Date modified July 31, 2009
