Great Plains Synfuels Plant Industrial Ecology in Practice to Produce Energy and Chemicals

12 GREAT PLAINS SYNFUELS PLANT INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY IN PRACTICE TO PRODUCE ENERGY AND CHEMICALS 

A key featme of the Great Plains Synfuel Plant is the extraction of CO2 from the synthesis gas. Since 2000, the Great Plains plant has been sending about half of the carbon dioxide that it generates by pipeline to oil fields in Saskatchewan, Canada, for enhanced oil production (see Section 17.8) at a current rate of 4.3 million cubic meters per day (2.5-3 million metric tons per year) and by 

FIGURE 17.14 Schematic of the Great Plains lignite coal gasification complex. 

2011 had captured more than 20 million metric tons of CO2. Unlike carbon dioxide from combustion sources, the CO2 from the Great Plains plant is not diluted with nitrogen and does not contain a significant amount of water vapor, which makes it very usable and economical to transport by pipeline. 

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