Post combustion Carbon Sequestration made Profitable
Post combustion Carbon Sequestration made Prrofitable
Carbon capture from a coal fired power plant could be made profitable and hydrogen could be produced for 16-cents per kilogram using a process developed at Florida International University.
Surendra Saxena, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Florida International University, has patented a new method of creating cheap hydrogen from coal, reacting the carbon dioxide (produced from coal combustion) with (inexpensively available) sodium hydroxide to make sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, hydrogen, which can all be sold.
The carbon dioxide in the flue gas of the coal power plant is reacted with sodium hydroxide to form sodium carbonate. Carbon monoxide in the flue gas can be reacted with water and natural gas to form sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate.
Mr Saxena calculates that sodium hydroxide can be acquired for $100 to $200 per ton, and sodium carbonate can be sold for $100 per ton. This would enable hydrogen to be produced at under $0.16 per kg (not including energy costs).
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Carbon capture from a coal fired power plant could be made profitable and hydrogen could be produced for 16-cents per kilogram using a process developed at Florida International University.
Surendra Saxena, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Florida International University, has patented a new method of creating cheap hydrogen from coal, reacting the carbon dioxide (produced from coal combustion) with (inexpensively available) sodium hydroxide to make sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, hydrogen, which can all be sold.
The carbon dioxide in the flue gas of the coal power plant is reacted with sodium hydroxide to form sodium carbonate. Carbon monoxide in the flue gas can be reacted with water and natural gas to form sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate.
Mr Saxena calculates that sodium hydroxide can be acquired for $100 to $200 per ton, and sodium carbonate can be sold for $100 per ton. This would enable hydrogen to be produced at under $0.16 per kg (not including energy costs).
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posted by powerplantccs at
7:08 PM
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If alternate energy is used for recycling and hydride synthesis, we will be close to the dream goal of zero emission of CO2 and reduction of global warming .
The world can build as many coal/gas burning power plants along with solar thermal plants as needed for the energy requirement of a healthy economic, pollution free growth of nations. This invention will become a model for all countries in the world and would lead to unprecedented economic developments in developing countries. The power plants using coal or fossil fuel should eventually be replaced by energy from alternative sources but what this invention would do is to provide us several decades of breathing time during which we could burn coal satisfying our energy needs and yet protect the environment.
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