One step closer to clean coal

Global energy services solutions provider GSE Systems is currently working on Phase II of a multi-phase project with Babcock and Wilcox Power Generation Group (B and W PGG) to supply an engineering simulator for the first-of-a-kind power plant design, FutureGen 2.0 project. The FutureGen 2.0 will be a near-zero emissions coal-fueled power plant using oxy-combustion technology.FutureGen 2.0, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act overseen by the US Department of Energy, will retrofit the decommissioned Meredosia coal-fuelled power plant in Illinois with an innovative oxy-coal carbon capture technology developed by BandW PGG in collaboration with Air Liquide. The oxy-coal combustion process uses nearly pure oxygen and recycled flue gasses instead of air for combustion. The resulting flue gas is composed of concentrated CO2, which is purified, compressed and stored in a deep formation.