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August 18, 2008

Siemens’ (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-CO2 IGCC power plant. EPCOR Power Generation is...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/4129.html

May 19, 2008

Alstom to build large biomass-processing facility in U.K.

Drax Group plc (www.draxgroup.plc.uk), a power generation business, and Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com), a global leader in power generation technology, have today...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3899.html

May 8, 2008

Solvay to power its Bernburg, Germany plant with secondary solid fuel

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today that work has begun to build a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) power plant at its site in Bernburg, Germany, which is...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3871.html

April 15, 2008

Chementator: An ammonia-based CO₂-capture process moves several steps closer to commercialization

Last month, the first pilot project that used chilled ammonia to capture carbon dioxide from the fluegas (FG) of a coal-fired power plant started operating at the 1,210-MW We...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3807.html

April 15, 2008

Chementator: Halogenated activated carbon reduces mercury emissions from a coal-fired plant

In its first full-scale test on a coal-fired power plant, halogenated activated carbon (AC) made by ADA-ES, Inc. (Littleton, Colo.; edlinks.che.com/7371-537) has reduced mercury...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3811.html

April 15, 2008

Chementator: CO₂-capture demo...

Basin Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC; Bismarck, N.D.) has selected the CO2-capture technology of Powerspan Corp. (Portsmouth, N.H.; edlinks.che.com/7371-546) for a commercial...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3818.html

April 15, 2008

Chementator: CO₂-capture pilot test

CSIRO (Melbourne, Australia; edlinks.che.com/7371-547) and China’s Thermal Power...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3819.html

March 20, 2008

IGCC plant celebrates 10 years of operation

Elcogas S.A., a company owned by the Spanish energy group ENDESA, together with other European utilities (EDF, Iberdrola, EDP, ENEL) will celebrate 10 years’ operation of its...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3757.html

March 15, 2008

Newsfront: Fuel Cells Move into the CPI Plant

Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Fuel cells and hydrogen economy are inevitably used in the same breath...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3717.html

March 15, 2008

Chementator: A new Mg₂Si-production process promises to advance thermoelectric devices

The Seebeck effect — the direct conversion of a temperature difference to electricity — is responsible for the operation of thermocouples. But taking advantage of this...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3737.html

March 15, 2008

Chementator: Grätzel cell

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE; Freiburg, Germany; edlinks.che.com/7370-575) have developed a solar-cell prototype that is semi-transparent...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3745.html

February 15, 2008

Chementator: This platinum-free fuel cell runs on hydrazine

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan; edlinks.che.com/7369-532) has designed a fuel cell for powering automobiles, using nickel and cobalt for the electrodes (instead of conventional...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3683.html

February 15, 2008

Chementator: New solid-state heat engine cycles H ₂ through MEA like a fuel cell

Johnson ElectroMechanical Systems, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.; edlinks.che.com/7369-536) in conjunction with professor Heshmat Aglan of Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, Ala....
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3686.html

December 21, 2007

World’s largest gas turbine begins trial operation

First firing of the world’s largest and most powerful gas turbine, developed by Siemens (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com), was achieved as scheduled on December 20, 2007. This...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3588.html

December 15, 2007

Chementator: Coal-Mine Vent Air

Megtec Systems (Glen Waverly, Victoria, Australia; edlinks.che.com/6902-542) has announced the first power plant fueled by methane emissions from coal-mine ventilation air...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3585.html

December 15, 2007

Chementator: With These Turbines, Waste Energy Can Now Be Recovered from Saturated Steam

Traditionally, the cogeneration of steam and electricity has been restricted to plants that generate superheated steam, making the recovery of energy losses from saturated steam...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3586.html

November 15, 2007

Plasma gasification process will recycle chlorine wastes and produce syngas

A plasma-based waste-treatment process will be installed in Dow Corning Corp.’s silicon-products-manufacturing plant in Midland, Mich., where it will recycle chemical wastes...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3505.html

November 15, 2007

Li-ion batteries

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; edlinks.che.com/6901-543) is acquiring a 20% stake in Li-Tec Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG (Kamenz, Germany). With its participation...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3507.html

November 15, 2007

Metals complex

Last month, UC Rusal (Moscow, Russia; edlinks.che.com/ 6901-542) signed an agreement with the government of Russia's Saratov region for the...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3508.html

November 15, 2007

Solar cells

A program to develop ionic liquids and formulations to improve the performance and efficiency of solar cells has been initiated by BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and G24 Innovations, Ltd...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/thermal_and_energy_mgmt/power_generation_and_transmission/3514.html

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