W.Va. power plant captures and stores CO2
Scientific American has a slide show on the AEP Mountaineer power plant’s carbon capture and storage program.
As this information page on the AEP website describes, the Mountaineer Plant is using Alstom’s chilled ammonia process. This installation is capturing CO2 from a 20 MW portion of the Mountaineer Plant’s 1,300 MW total output. The program will capture “approximately 100,000 metric tons per year of CO2,” which will be injected into deep geologic formations about 2km under the Mountaineer plant.
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