DOE grant furthers clean coal R&D

July 31, 2012 | By Barbara Vergetis Lundin

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected ThermoEnergy Corporation's Unity Power Alliance (UPA) joint venture for a grant that will fund further research and development for the production of clean electric power from coal.

The grant will fund a technology called pressurized oxy-combustion, which burns coal at high pressures in highly purified oxygen -- instead of in air at normal pressure as in conventional coal plants -- increasing the efficiency of power plants.

With increasingly stringent pollution control regulations for coal plants, the technology allows virtually all of the pollutants to be captured before they are emitted into the atmosphere.

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