China Huaneng Group yesterday signed an agreement with the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
(CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, to develop clean coal
power generation, and carbon capturing and storage
technologies.
The collaboration includes capturing power plants' flue gases,
coal gasification, coal gas purification and some other power
generation technologies.
The agreement will also see a post-combustion capture pilot
project at Huaneng Beijing thermal power plant. Post-combustion
capture is a process that traps carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue
gases of power plants. It's a key technology that can potentially
reduce CO2 emissions from existing and future coal-fired power
plants by more than 85 percent, CSIRO website says.
Low-emission energy generation is CSIRO's key research area, the
organization's chief executive, Geoff Garrett, said.
"CSIRO has developed a significant energy research program with
the objective of significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions
from the energy sector while increasing efficiency and developing
new technologies for our future energy mix."
The organization has been working on collaborative projects with
China for more than 30 years and in areas as diverse as minerals
and mining technology, plantation forestry, environmental
sustainability and crop science.
Garrett said CSIRO is delighted to continue the process to help
its partner Huaneng address the global issue of greenhouse gas
emissions from the energy sector.
(China Daily September 7, 2007)
