Futuregen Clean Coal Power

FutureGen, the Integrated Sequestration and Hydrogen Research Initiative, is a $1 billion industry/government partner- ship to design, build and operate a coal gasification-based, nearly emission-free, coal-fired electricity and hydrogen production plant. The 275-megawatt prototype plant will serve as a large scale engineering laboratory for testing new clean power, carbon capture, and coal-to-hydrogen technologies. It will be the cleanest fossil fuel-fired power plant in the world. Virtually every aspect of the prototype plant will employ cutting-edge technology. With respect to sequestration technologies, captured CO2 will be separated from the hydrogen perhaps by novel membranes currently under development. It would then be permanently sequestered in a geologic formation. Candidate reservoir(s) could include depleted oil and gas reservoirs, unmineable coal seams, deep saline aquifers, and basalt formations - all common in the United States. FutureGen efforts will benefit from the other ongoing activities in our R&D portfolio.





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