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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Ohio State Gets a Bead on Cleaner Coal-fired Power

Ohio State Gets a Bead on Cleaner Coal-fired Power

OSU master's student Samuel Bayham displays pulverized coal (bottle, left) and the iron oxide beads (bottle, right) that enable combustion without burning. Photo by Jo McCulty, courtesy of Ohio State University.Ohio State University claims to have reached a milestone towards proving a radical new take on oxyfuel power generation that could push down the cost of zeroing out coal's large and growing carbon footprint. Project director Liang-Shih Fan, director of OSU’s Clean Coal Research Laboratory, revealed recently that their reactor had operated for 203 continuous hours last fall and captured 99 percent of the resulting CO2.http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/clean-coal/ohio-state-gets-a-bead-on-cleaner-coalfired-power?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumEnergywiseBlog+%28Energywise+-+IEEE+Spectrum%29

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