Gasification Plants

EIU's eco-friendly energy plant plans again draw protests from residents

CHARLESTON — With a meeting by the Eastern Illinois University Board of Trustees looming Friday, plans for a high-tech, environmentally friendly heating and cooling plant again met with vocal protests Monday from residents of...

Can concept of clean coal be salvaged?

Study looks at method that drastically improves efficiency, cuts emissions Italian scientists have detailed new process for transforming coal into gas that could yield 40 percent more fuel while releasing less carbon dioxide....

Sacramento trash-to-energy plan raises red flags

Presented with a controversial and highly technical proposal to vaporize garbage into energy, Sacramento City Council members earlier this month wondered what other cities had found – and whether those lessons were being...

Plasma Plants To Vaporize Trash While Generating Energy

Plasma Plants Will Vaporize Trash While Generating Energy by Mike Chino Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States’ first plasma gasification plant. The...

Cleaner Coal Technology Key to the World’s Energy Future

GE, University of Wyoming Developing Research Center to Push the Technology Forward ATLANTA, GEORGIA - GE Energy and the University of Wyoming today announced an agreement to further cleaner coal technology, making coal-fired...

Target set for coal research plant to open

CHEYENNE - A proposed coal research plant in Wyoming may be operating as soon as 2012, although the process of determining where to put it is just beginning, a representative of General Electric Co. said Thursday. "I think we...

GE, Wyoming developing clean coal research center

GE Energy and the University of Wyoming plan to develop cleaner coal technology. Under the agreement, GE and the university will develop the High Plains Gasification Advanced Technology Center to accelerate the commercial use...

Bioenergy projects win big environment, energy and development awards

Poor people in developing countries have very few options for gaining access to modern energy services, most notably electricity. Renewables like solar, wind and hydropower are way too expensive, intermittent and require...

Wits COMPS and Golden Nest Commission China F-T Plant

The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits) COMPS (Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis) and Golden Nest recently commissioned and began operations of the Baodan Liquid Fuels Plant in Baoji,...

Plasma Plants Will Vaporize Trash While Generating Energy

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:09 AM EST Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States’ first plasma gasification plant. The plant will use...

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