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Carbon Capture (Proposed)

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Description

The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center a division of the Prairie Research Institute is part of a pilot project on the University of Illinois campus that will explore methods to capture carbon dioxide from the gas- and coal-fired Abbott Power Plant. The ultimate goal is to reduce CO2 emissions and developing industrial markets that would reuse the recovered CO2. The Department of Energy is funding the $1.3 million engineering and planning phase, representing the DOE’s first sponsorship of a large-scale research and development project for the capture of CO2 emissions. Along with five other Phase I DOE grant recipients, the U. of I. team will vie for future funding for a $75 million Phase II award to install the capture technology and evaluate its performance.

Project Team

  • Project Leader:

    Kevin O'Brien

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