Company/Alliance: NRG Energy, Fluor Corp, Ramgen/Dresser-Rand, Sargent and Lundy LLC
Location: WA Parish plant, Houston, Texas, USA
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 60 MW. Up to 0.5 Mt/Yr CO2 captured.
Capture Technology: Post Combustion. Flue Gas scrubbing using Fluor Corporation's Econamine FG Plussm technology
CO2 Fate: EOR
Timing: Operational by 2013
Motivation/Economics: NRG is currently seeking DOE funding and has not yet provided a cost estimate for the project.
Comments: In September 2009 NRG announced that it will use Fluor Corp.'s Econamine FG Plus capture technology. NRG was previously going to use Powerspan's ECO2 capture technology on the pilot scale project. The NRG energy's WA Parish plant is one of the US's worst CO2 pollutants. This project will decrease the emission of pollutants of CO2 by 90% as well as SOx, NOx, mercury and particulate emissions. NRG has joined the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC).
Project Link: NRG website
Other Sources and Press Release:
NRG seeks DOE money for CCS test (September 2009)
Fluor Corp
website
America Coal Council Licences CO2 capture (Dec 2007)
Powerspan Liscences CO2 Capture (Dec 2007) [PDF]
NRG to test CO2 capture. Press release (Nov 2007)
Date Modified September 8, 2009
