Project Overview
American Electric Power (AEP) and Alstom have teamed up to bring Alstom’s chilled ammonia process for CO2 capture to full commercial scale of up to 200 MW by 2011. This is a major step in demonstrating post-combustion carbon capture. The technology has the great advantage versus other technologies of being fully applicable not only for new power plants, but also for the retrofit of existing coal-fired power plants. The project will be implemented in two phases. This first phase, Alstom and AEP will jointly develop a 30 MWth product validation plant that will capture CO2 from flue gas emitted from AEP’s 1300 MW Mountaineer Plant located in New Haven, West Virginia. It is targeted to capture up to 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year. The captured CO2 will be designated for geological storage in deep saline aquifers at the site. This pilot is scheduled for start-up at the end of 2008 and will operate for approximately 12-18 months.
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Project Type
Capture & Storage
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Location
Mountaineer Station, West Virginia, U.S.A
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Type of CO2 Storage Operation
Onshore saline aquifer 
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Major Stakeholders
American Electric Power (AEP)
Alstom
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
Battelle Memorial Institute
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Project Scale
Pilot
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Project Start Year: 2008
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Method of CO 2 delivery
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Injected Gas Composition
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Project Cost
DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy = $7.2 million; Alstom & AEP = $1.4 million for initial phases. Geologic investigation cost $4.2 million
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Otway Project Newsletter: Carbon Storage Research Project Update (PDF 800KB) |
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CO2CRC Annual Report 2007/08 - click here for download options |
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Program and Abstracts, CO2CRC Research Symposium 2008 (PDF 4.7MB) |
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General Report (PDF 7.5MB): Assessment of the all island potential for geological storage o f carbon dioxide in Ireland (CSA Group, Ireland, in association with Byrne O Cleririgh, Ireland; British Geological Survey, UK and CO2CRC, Australia. 144pp.) |
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General Report: Storage Capacity Estimation, Site Selection and Characterisation for CO2 Storage Projects (PDF 4.6MB) |