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Publish date: September 22, 2010
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The pilot plant was built by Spanish engineering company ELCOGAS with the support of the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry and the Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha, southern Spain.
This is the first industrial-scale pilot plant of its kind in Spain, and ELOCOGAS also promote it as the first IGCC plant dedicated to electricity production and actively capturing CO2 in the world.
The plant uses Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle and incorporates a mixture of local fuels – including local Puertollano coal and refinery wastes. ELOCOGAS claims that the plant’s emissions are lower than that of any other available technology based on coal or biomass.
In their press release, ELCOGAS explains that the next step is to begin an optimization process of the co-production of hydrogen and electricity with CO2 capture through the running of various tests at the site.
Read the full press release here (in Spanish).
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