Dear Claverton, There was a very interesting article in today's Evening Standard by Robert Lea on how useless is the Select Committee on Energy. I sent him the e-mail below. However I have attached a word copy of the article, which is headed "WHY ENERGY MPs SHOW THE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN" Can you put this on the website please!!!!!! Best regards Fred »
This statement , from E.ON and EDF was in the financial pages of the Guardian on 16th March 2009. Fred Starr and Dave Andrews put in a briefing note to this effect in the Inst of Civil Engineers Journal ” Energy” last year. But we also pointed out that nuclear cannot exist without back up from fossil, and because most of the fosil plant whould have to be shut down at night, it c... »
The hybrid Toyota is a well known and claimed fuel efficient car. We all know its somehow got a battery and an engine. But what is the idea? Why does this make it more efficient? Essentially the Toyota is more efficient (well a bit) than many similar cars, because the engine operates on what is known as an Atkinson* cycle, rather than the normal Otto cycle for petrol engines. In case you are i... »
If no one has anything better, here is a slightly incomplete table for coal production. This has been compiled from various sources over the past few years. Peak was 1913 when we were exporting 100 million tons at a price of around £1 per ton. This might be equivalent to £50 per ton today (or higher?). UK coal exports began to get uncompetitive after WWI, and was one of the main reasons for th... »
Claverton Hydrogen Storage on IGCC Sites Dear Neil You asked if it would be practical to store syngas as a method of allowing IGCC-CCS plants to respond to the overnight fall in demand The prospects of the on-site storage of syngas, to enable an IGCC to vary its output seem limited. The gas that would have to be stored would have to be hydrogen. Otherwise, the processes by which the carbon in t... »
Abstract This paper endeavours to give an objective account of the background to gasification based processes for power generation with carbon capture. Such processes are a development of IGCC plant designs in which coal or heavy fuel oil is first gasified and to produce a fuel gas for a CCGT unit. Although the IGCC concept does lend itself, very well, to high levels of carbon capture, and cou... »
- Just Another Panic-led “Solution” to Another Energy Crisis? By Dr F.Starr - FIMMM, C.Eng : Claverton: October 2008. This presentation was given at the Claverton October 2008 Conference and was intended to provoke discussion about one of the main downsides to the concepts of carbon capture. The issue in question is that carbon capture will increase coal demand by at least 20%, over what non-... »
NOTE – THERE IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS PAPER HERE - http://www.claverton-energy.com/igcc-based-power-plants-for-carbon-capture-and-storage-fstarr-phd-fimmm-ceng.html IGCC Based Power Plants for Carbon Capture and Storage F.Starr PhD. FIMMM. C.Eng A Claverton Group Paper: 11th February 2009 »
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