Vattenfall Joins Oxycoal Project

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Swedish utility Vattenfall has joined the Oxycoal UK project, a partnership led by Doosan Babcock that aims to develop oxyfuel technology to be used in carbon capture and storage for coal-fired power plants, Vattenfall said December 18. Oxyfuel combustion involves burning coal in a mixture of high purity oxygen and recycled gas to produce an almost pure form of carbon dioxide that can then be purified and compressed for transport to a geological storage site. Vattenfall is to invest ￡330,000 in the project, which runs to November 2009, with an option for a two-year extension.rnVattenfall is committed to making its entire generation fleet carbon neutral by 2050. It launched the world's first commercial scale (30 MW) CCS project at its German Schwarze Pumpe plant in September 2008, which it is using to test capture and storage.rnIts involvement in the UK-based project does not signal an immediate plan to move into the UK coal-fired power market, but could aid such a move in future, Vattenfall CCS project team member Staff an Gortz told Platts.