What actually comes out the stack when the "scrubber" is in use? (For that matter, *is* there still a stack?)
Does the plant still vent steam, H2O being the second major combustion product, or is that also soaked up by the ammonia? The stuff is majorly hygroscopic, I would guess. Here's a totally random thought: If an effective scrubber could be made reasonably compact, and if it actually "scrubs away" the entire exhaust of the plant, then it would be possible (in principle) to make practical non-nuclear submarines that didn't have the short immersion limit of the WWI and WWII subs. (Now, whether they'd be good for anything is another question.) [email protected] wrote: > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Shop Inspiron, Studio and XPS Laptops at Dell.com > <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222616459x1201464730/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215218145%3B37264238%3Bd> >
