The move paves the way for US-Sino cooperation to accelerate commercialization of technologies to address pollution and climate change.
Under the agreement, Future Fuels will offer access to all relevant information from its Good Spring, Pennsylvania, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) facility, while TPRI will similarly share information from its GreenGen IGCC facility in Tianjin, China.
Xu Shisen, chief technology officer of TPRI, said: “After so many years of deep research and development, we are pleased to see near-zero emissions coal gasification electricity plants become a reality. The cooperation between GreenGen and Future Fuels will certainly accelerate progress in the areas of efficiency, cost, and adoption of key climate improving technology around the world.”
TPRI’s GreenGen facility is a 250 megawatt electrical plant. GreenGen is currently under construction and intends to commence operations in 2011.
Raj Suri, CEO of Future Fuels, said: “The agreement represents the logical next step after years of work to deliver the US a state of art power solution with climate change objectives firmly at the forefront. TPRI will be an integral part of making this the environmentally cleanest footprint of any IGCC in the world.”
