In fact, while some of it is transported off-site for use in industrial application, much of the stored carbon in the onsite tanks is simply vented back into the atmosphere. The plant can store about 20 hours of carbon, after which the tanks must be purged. At full capacity the pilot plant can store 9 tons of carbon per hour.

There is at present no framework policy in place for geologic sequestration of carbon, so it should be understood that this project is primarily testing the oxyfuel process for capturing carbon, sequestration is not part of the current operation at Schwarze Pumpe – there is hope that GS may begin in saline aquifers common in northern Germany.

The pilot plant stands next to the larger 1600 megawatt lignite-fired plant at Scwarze Pumpe, but the smaller pilot plant is not connected to the grid (and thus has no electrical output) and has a thermal output of 30MW, not 300 as stated in the post. Vattenfall hopes to have a 300-500MW demonstration plant in operation (and connected to the grid) by 2015, and a full-scale 1000MW plant running by 2020.

The steam generated from the plant is sold to a nearby paper mill.

I’ve written a detailed post in the process of the oxyfuel capture process done at Schwarze Pump at: http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2009/05/15/schwarze-pumpe-part-1-first-operational-ccs-plant-captures-carbon-will-it-lead-to-clean-coal/

In fact, while some of it is transported off-site for use in industrial application, much of the stored carbon in the onsite tanks is simply vented back into the atmosphere. The plant can store about 20 hours of carbon, after which the tanks must be purged. At full capacity the pilot plant can store 9 tons of carbon per hour.

There is at present no framework policy in place for geologic sequestration of carbon, so it should be understood that this project is primarily testing the oxyfuel process for capturing carbon, sequestration is not part of the current operation at Schwarze Pumpe – there is hope that GS may begin in saline aquifers common in northern Germany.

The pilot plant stands next to the larger 1600 megawatt lignite-fired plant at Scwarze Pumpe, but the smaller pilot plant is not connected to the grid (and thus has no electrical output) and has a thermal output of 30MW, not 300 as stated in the post. Vattenfall hopes to have a 300-500MW demonstration plant in operation (and connected to the grid) by 2015, and a full-scale 1000MW plant running by 2020.

The steam generated from the plant is sold to a nearby paper mill.

I’ve written a detailed post in the process of the oxyfuel capture process done at Schwarze Pump at: http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2009/05/15/schwarze-pumpe-part-1-first-operational-ccs-plant-captures-carbon-will-it-lead-to-clean-coal/

Why not break it down and release the oxygen or re-use it and burn the carbon again??

Shouldn’t concentrated carbon dioxide burn and wouldn’t filtering large amount of air from the atmosphere also filter out particulates like from wood burning stoves and dust and pollen and leave the air even cleaner than just trying to filter out the carbon dioxide??

Does carbon dioxide burn in high enough concentrations of carbon??

Can’t the carbon be used to make roads and tires and concrete blocks and bricks and pavers??

I think filtering air on an industrial scale would be a great thing and probably would even capture enough usable carbon and oxygen to make it pay for itself.

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