| | Category | ENEV | P15 | Reducing Carbon Emissions From A Coal Burning Plant |
| | Abstract | The purpose of this project is mainly focusing on finding a better |
| | alternative for catching the carbon emissions emitted by a coal burning |
| | plant. Right now there are limited options for doing this so finding one |
| | that performs better that can be implemented on a wide scale would be |
| | helpful to the world. The way this will be tested is by simulating a coal |
| | plant with a grill that would be burning bituminous coal. The gases |
| | emitted will then be pumped through an air compressor to have |
| | pressure behind it. The gases will be pumped and filtered through |
| | buckets that are full of calcium hydroxide solute, sodium hydroxide |
| | solute, soybean oil. The Carbon will be measured in two spots, right |
| | before entering the compressor and after being filtered through the 2 |
| | buckets. The Soybean Oil performed much worse than the Sodium |
| | Hydroxide and Calcium Hydroxide. It caught no Carbon Dioxide and the |
| | PPM of CO2 stayed the exact same. The sodium hydroxide dropped the |
| | CO2 PPM a lot. There was a 77 Percent decrease between the |
| | beginning and final amount of Carbon Dioxide. Then there was a 81 |
| | Percent decrease between the Beginning and Final Amount of Carbon |
| | Dioxide. The Hydroxides has a drawback however seeing as the |
| | Hydroxides solute has to be changed out when it all binds with the |
| | carbon dioxide. The sodium hydroxide was suppose to create Sodium |
| | Carbonate in an Aqueous Solution. Then Calcium Hydroxide was |
| | suppose to produce Calcium Carbonate in an Aqueous Solution. It is |
| | believed that it did happen but for the Byproduct to be useful, the water |
| | and the chemical has to be split. |
| | Bibliography | Amine Scrubbing for CO2 Capture |
| | Gary Rochelle - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5948/1652 |
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| | Amine gas treating |
| | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine_gas_treating |
| | What is CCS? |
| | http://www.ccsassociation.org/what-is-ccs/ |
| | Carbon capture and storage |
| | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage |
| | Carbon capture and storage |