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Proposal for UK gas power station with carbon capture + fuel cells
Fuel Cells, July 20 2010 (The Hydrogen Journal)
- UK company B9 Gas, an affiliate of B9 Coal, is announcing plans to build a gas power station using carbon capture, as an entry to the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change carbon capture and storage demonstration competition.
AFC Energy of the UK, a specialist in alkaline fuel cells, is supporting the project.
Instead of just burning the gas, it will use it to make hydrogen (via steam methane reforming).
The hydrogen will be passed into an AFC Energy alkaline fuel cell to make electricity.
The carbon dioxide emitted from the reforming operation will be buried.
The company believes that it can capture 99 per cent of the carbon dioxide this way.
A B9 spokesperson told Reuters that they calculate the capital cost of a conventional gas turbine at $835,800 per megawatt, compared to $300,000 per megawatt for an AFC alkaline fuel cell (although this does not include the cost of the reformer).
