Marspec Technical Products has been selected by the National Carbon Capture Research Center to provide an advanced boiler, several heat exchangers and vessels for the Wilsonville, Alabama facility. This joint project of the Department of Energy and Southern Company is seeking efficient, economical ways to capture and sequester carbon emissions produced during the combustion of coal.Quoting from a Southern Company press release:
The National Carbon Capture Center plans to conduct testing on both pre-combustion and post-combustion carbon capture technologies. Existing facilities at the PSDF will be modified to conduct the pre-combustion CO2 capture component of the NCCC project. New facilities to conduct post-combustion testing and evaluation will be on the site of Plant Gaston, a coal-fueled generating plant adjacent to the PSDF that is operated by Southern Company subsidiary Alabama Power.
Once fully operational in 2010, the National Carbon Capture Center will bring together science and innovation in technology development, along with real-world testing capability, to play a leading role in the effort to achieve cost-effective and reliable capture of carbon dioxide from coal-based power generation.
Marspec is excited to be part of this cutting edge research effort.
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