http://www.purdue.edu/dp/energy/ Energy Center Clean Coal Energy News RSS Feed http://www.energy.gov/news/6233.htm May 7, 2008 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a draft Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit public input on the demonstration of multiple commercial-scale Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) or other clean coal power plants with cutting-edge carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology under the Department’s restructured FutureGen approach. The draft solicitation outlines the planned scope of the project, evaluation criteria, terms and conditions, and cost sharing requirements for public-private cooperation under FutureGen. http://www.energy.gov/news/6231.htm May 6, 2008 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards of more than $126.6 million to the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) and the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) for the Department’s fifth and sixth large-scale carbon sequestration projects. These industry partnerships, which are part of DOE’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, will conduct large volume tests in California and Ohio to demonstrate the ability of a geologic formation to safely, permanently, and economically store more than one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). Subject to annual appropriations from Congress, this project including the partnership’s cost share is estimated to cost over $183 million. Advancing carbon sequestration is a key component of the Bush Administration’s comprehensive efforts to commercially advance clean coal technology to meet current and future energy needs and meet President Bush’s goal to stop greenhouse gas emissions growth by 2025. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080414MikesellBoiler.html The Purdue board of trustees on Friday (April 11) approved constructing a new clean-coal technology boiler using a novel procurement method that can shorten construction time and lower costs. Purdue will use the design-build method, which by Indiana law allows higher education institutions to hire a single contractor for both design and construction services. Typically, design and construction work are bid separately. http://www.purdue.edu/dp/energy/pdfs/CokePlantSyntheticFuelProduction-Kramer.pdf Development of a Multipurpose Coke Plant for Synthetic Fuel Production (Kramer, Pelter, Valia) -- This paper describes initial results of the development of a process that can provide at least a partial resolution and/or mitigation of this formidable problem through the use of Indiana/Illinois Basin coal in either a mine mouth or local, environmentally friendly, high efficiency coking/coal gasification facility. Such a process would increase coke supply and production, while, at the same time reduce coal costs. Current results indicate that it is possible to use an optimized blend of Indiana/Illinois Basin and conventional metallurgical coals to produce coke that has acceptable hot and cold strength and other physical and chemical characteristics as well as producing a gas stream that can be used for the production of additional products such as Fischer-Tropsch liquid transportation fuels, fertilizer, hydrogen, and electricity. Methods to use nanoscale catalysis to reduce the carbon foot print of coking operations by producing salable chemical products from the produced carbon dioxide are also being considered. http://www.purdue.edu/dp/energy/pdfs/insight_sp08.pdf Purdue Calumet Insight (Spring 2008) -- Energy Efficiency and Reliability Center advances region by seeking to solve energy problems