Innovation Anthology #714:
There’s no doubt concern over greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and climate change are putting pressure on the coal industry to improve or abandon that resource.
Darren Alessandrini is Senior Manager of Natural Resources and Business Development for Capital Power.
As Darren explains, there’s ongoing research into making coal burn cleaner.
And along with biomass and gasification, Capital power is moving towards new technologies.
DARREN ALESSANDRINI: As an example, Capital Power funded a fairly large engineering study to look at integrated gasification combined cycle which is a technology that essentially converted the coal into a synthetic gas, and then burn the gas in a gas turbine, very similar to what we do at Cloverbar or what we’re proposing on Genesee 4 and 5. And by doing so, you’re able to extract some of the CO2 before the gas is combusted. So that technology looked very promising but also very, very costly.
Darren Alessandrini also points to Sask Power’s retrofit of one of its coal plants where 90 percent of the carbon dioxide is captured and recycled.
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Program Date: 2015-09-10