The single largest cost in the production and distribution of industrial gases is energy. It is therefore no wonder that the industrial gas (IG) industry has a big interest in the more efficient use of fuels. IG companies also are leading developers of environmental technologies related to capturing emissions from power plants, particularly carbon dioxide, which is both a potent greenhouse gas that needs capturing, and a lucrative byproduct that is revenue generating.
In this issue of gasworld, we focus on the interconnections between energy production, efficiency, and emissions control, and the way companies are looking at new technologies that make all three economically feasible.
One company working especially hard on this triple play is NET Power. In March 2016, the company began work on a 50MWth (megawatt thermal) demonstration project in LaPorte, TX, which it calls “a first-of-a-kind power plant that uses a natural gas power system to produce low-cost electricity with zero atmospheric emissions, including carbon dioxide.”
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