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20 November 2007 - AEA Technology plc has been appointed to run the first 18-month phase of the UK-China Near Zero Emissions Coal (NZEC) Initiative. This initiative is a key element of the EU-China Partnership on climate change and aims to demonstrate coal fired power generation with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in China.
AEA will manage the first phase of the NZEC project, which is being supported by up to £3.5m ($7.2m) of funding from the UK government.
The objectives of this assessment stage are to:
* Enable knowledge transfer between Chinese and UK parties (academic, industrial and other) and build capacity based on CCS in China.
* Model the future energy requirements of China, taking CCS technology into account.
* Produce case studies of potential carbon dioxide capture technologies.
* Perform initial characterization of selected sites suitable for carbon dioxide storage.
* Develop a roadmap for CCS in China, drawing together the elements of the above objectives.
It is expected that the project will culminate in the building of a demonstration plant in China, to be commissioned by 2014.
In addition to AEA, the project will involve a consortium of key industrial and academic partners. The UK partners are Air Products, Alstom Power, BP, the British Geological Survey, Doosan Babcock, Heriott Watt University, Imperial College London and Shell.
Within China, the Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21 (ACCA21) will co-ordinate the input of the 20 Chinese partner organizations.
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