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Oxy-coal combustion plant to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.(BUSINESS TRENDS)(American Electric Power Company Inc.)(Babcock and Wilcox Co. Power Generation Group)(Brief article)
Advanced Materials & Processes, May, 2007
McDermott International Inc. announces that its subsidiary, the Babcock & Wilcox Company, and American Electric Power plan to pursue the commercial viability of a new combustion technology to reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions from coal-fired power plants. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, the companies will assess the application of oxy-coal combustion as a retrofit to an existing AEP plant, and work toward the development of the first oxy-coal commercial validation project in the United States.
Oxy-coal combustion uses pure oxygen for the combustion of coal in electricity generating plants. In this system, nitrogen that comes in with the air for the combustion process is eliminated. As a result, the exhaust gas is a relatively pure...
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