CLEAN COAL companies: Alstom: Chilled Ammonia Location: Chena, Alaska Inventor: Eli Gal Alstom, the French energy giant, is using a “chilled ammonia” process developed by chemical engineer Eli Gal to remove carbon dioxide from power plant gases. A pilot plant to demonstrate the technology began construction in 2007 in Wisconsin, organized by the Electric Power Research Institute and supported by more than thirty U.S. utilities. In 2008 Alstom intends to install a demonstration scrubber at the 1,300-megawatt Mountaineer Plant in West Virginia, the nation’s number one industrial emitter of carbon dioxide. The plant’s operator plans to build a commercial-scale, $325 million chilled ammonia scrubber in Oklahoma in 2011, selling the captured carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery.
I have been studing the details of this process. Eli Gal is one smart dude. Frank Z
