Company/Alliance: American Electric Power (AEP), Alstom, 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 a deep saline formation below the site
Timing: Pilot operation (2008)
Motivation/Economics: The project is a combined ten-year effort with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE). 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. Meanwhile, AEP will collaborate with Babcock & Wilcox on developing oxyfuel combustion technology at its 30 MW Clean Environment Development Facility in Alliance, Ohio. Oxyfuel combustion is a CO2 capture process that is supposedly more efficient and less costly than other options.
Project Link: AEP to install carbon capture on two existing power plants; company will be first to move technology to commercial scale (March 2007)
Other Sources and Press Release:
New CO2 Capture Technology (July 07)
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)
Post combustion Carbon capture technology using ammonia (March 2007)
Alstom completes successful pilot plant testing of new technology for carbon capture (September 2005)
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)
