Oxycombustion Projects, to Enable CO2 Capture, Announced

DOE announced today that they had selected two projects to demonstrate “oxycombustion”. In an oxycombustion-based power plant, oxygen rather than air is used to combust a fuel resulting in a highly pure carbon dioxide (CO2) exhaust that can be captured at relatively low-cost and sequestered. No commercial oxygen combustion power plants are operating today, due mainly to the high cost of producing oxygen. Significant reduction in the cost of oxygen compared to today
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