FutureGen project

FutureGen is a major IGCC project, backed by the US government and intended to last 10 years, that has three key objectives  

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Recently, the United States launched the FutureGen Project (Figure 3.4). FutureGen is an initiative to build the world s first integrated carbon dioxide sequestration-hydrogen... 

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has started the billion- dollar, FutureGen project to demonstrate a 275-megawatt prototype plant that cogenerates electric power and hydrogen and sequesters 90% of the C02. 

Capturing and storing 200 to 400 Mt C annually by 2050 is a huge task. On the order of a thousand projects the size of the first two C02 geological storage demonstration projects (discussed below, in the subsection CCS Demonstration Projects ) would be required. These projects each capture and store about 300,000 metric tons C/yr. This is also the scale of CCS planned for the proposed FutureGen Project (see below). 

The Department of Energy s FutureGen project seeks to design and construct the world s first coal-fueled plant to produce electricity and hydrogen with zero emissions. An artist s rendering ofa possible design is shown. U.S. Department of Ener, Officeof Fossil Ener ... 

In 2003 the Department of Energy announced FutureGen, also known as the Integrated Sequestration and Hydrogen Research Initiative. This is a 10-year, billion dollar project to produce a 275-MW prototype plant that will cogenerate electricity and hydrogen and sequester 90% of the C02. 

FutureGen, a project involving a utilities consortium funded by subsidies from the U.S. government, hopes to build a plant in Mattoon,... 

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