US FutureGen Project Using China's TPRI Clean-Coal Technology

摘要

China's Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI) has licensed its clean-coal technology to the high-profile US FutureGen project, in a deal that will likely result in Chinese machinery being used for the controversial carbon-capture initiative.The institute is 52% owned by China Huadian, one of die country's largest utilities, with the remainder held by other domestic state-owned energy firms. Huadian is also a stakeholder in FutureGen, a 275-MW US R&D project. It is intended to demonstrate how to sequester carbon from coal, while also showing how hydrogen could be produced from die fossil fuel. Critics said the $2.4 billion project was too expensive and relied on unproven technology.