Ok, my bad, now I see in the Times
article that ammonia is used to capture the carbon dioxide from flue gases, and
then the carbon dioxide is boiled out of the solution before being injected as
a gas into the sandstone.
Why did they hire Mr. Rube Goldberg
as their designer?
Ron Bishop, P.E.
Solid Waste Professional Engineer
Alachua County Public Works Department
352-374-5213 x279
From: Bioenergy and
Sustainable Technology Society [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Humphrey,Stephen
R
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:50 PM
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Subject: Refitted to Bury Emissions, Plant Draws Attention
If
all goes smoothly, this week engineers will begin pumping carbon dioxide,
converted to a fluid, into a layer of sandstone 7,800 feet below the rolling
countryside here and then into a layer of dolomite 400 feet below that.
The
liquid will squeeze into tiny pores in the rock, displacing the salty water
there, and assume a shape something like a squashed football, 30 to 40 feet
high and hundreds of yards long.
American
Electric Power’s plan is to inject about 100,000 tons annually for two to five
years, about 1.5 percent of Mountaineer’s yearly emissions of carbon dioxide.
Should Congress pass a law
controlling carbon dioxide emissions and the new technology proves economically
feasible, the company says, it could then move to capture as much as 90 percent
of the gas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/earth/22coal.html?_r=1&em
Dr. Stephen R. Humphrey, Director,
School of Natural Resources and Environment,
Box 116455, 103 Black Hall, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6455 USA
Tel. 352-392-9230, Fax 352-392-9748
http://snre.ufl.edu