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The ZeroGen Project is a world-leading low-emissions coal project that’s planned for development near Rockhampton in Central Queensland.The project has a two-staged approach that will develop the world’s first demonstration-scale Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in 2012, and one of the world’s first commercial-scale plants using these technologies in 2017.
The ZeroGen Project is a world-leading low-emissions coal project that’s planned for development near Rockhampton in Central Queensland.
The project has a two-staged approach that will develop the world’s first demonstration-scale Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in 2012, and one of the world’s first commercial-scale plants using these technologies in 2017.
Through a staged deployment program, the project will first develop a demonstration-scale 120 megawatt (gross) IGCC power plant with CCS.
The facility is due to begin operations in late 2012 and will capture up to 75% of carbon dioxide (CO2). Some of the CO2 will be transported by road tankers for partial sequestration (carbon storage) in deep underground reservoirs in the Northern Denison Trough, approximately 220km west of the plant.
To facilitate more rapid uptake of the technology at commercial scale, ZeroGen will concurrently develop a large-scale 450 megawatt (gross) IGCC power plant with CCS. Due for deployment in 2017, the facility will be one of the first of its kind in the world and will capture up to 90% of CO2. Its location will be at a site in Queensland to be determined by a feasibility study.
ZeroGen Pty Ltd is currently supported by the Queensland Government and the coal industry’s COAL21 Fund.
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