CCS project underway
By Pan Xiaoyi |
July 3, 2010, Saturday
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CHINA, the world's second-largest energy consumer, started construction of its first carbon dioxide capture and storage demonstration project in Erdos in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The 210 million yuan (US$30.9 million) project will be able to capture and reserve 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year initially before the capacity is expanded to 1 million tons and 3 million tons in two phases.
The first phase will begin operations by the end of this year, China National Petroleum Corp, the country's biggest oil producer and the plant's designer, said in a statement on its website yesterday.
The plant is built on the site of a coal-to-liquid project owned by Shenghua Group Co, the nation's largest coal producer.
Carbon dioxide capture and storage, or CCS, is a process whereby carbon dioxide is captured from gases produced by fossil fuel combustion, compressed, transported and injected into deep geologic formations for permanent storage, according to the International Energy Agency.
CCS is an effective way to help China, the world's third-largest coal user, to achieve its goal of cutting carbon dioxide it emits for each unit of economic output by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
China is also working with Norway, a leader in CCS technique, to develop the domestic market for this technology.
The 210 million yuan (US$30.9 million) project will be able to capture and reserve 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year initially before the capacity is expanded to 1 million tons and 3 million tons in two phases.
The first phase will begin operations by the end of this year, China National Petroleum Corp, the country's biggest oil producer and the plant's designer, said in a statement on its website yesterday.
The plant is built on the site of a coal-to-liquid project owned by Shenghua Group Co, the nation's largest coal producer.
Carbon dioxide capture and storage, or CCS, is a process whereby carbon dioxide is captured from gases produced by fossil fuel combustion, compressed, transported and injected into deep geologic formations for permanent storage, according to the International Energy Agency.
CCS is an effective way to help China, the world's third-largest coal user, to achieve its goal of cutting carbon dioxide it emits for each unit of economic output by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
China is also working with Norway, a leader in CCS technique, to develop the domestic market for this technology.
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