Ramgen Announcements

NEXT PHASE OF ACHIEVING CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION

There is widespread agreement that a high priority in reducing greenhouse gases is demonstrating that CO2 can be captured, compressed and put underground on a commercial scale that is safe and affordable.

Projects that will demonstrate the latest technology to do this are now the focal point for any realistic path to limiting Climate Change. On December 4, 2009 US Energy Secretary Chu announced a $3 billion investment for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) that would provide DOE funding for three projects. This funding, under the Department’s Clean Coal Power Initiatives (“CCPI”) program, included two projects in which the Ramgen CO2 compressor was included in the grant application. These were the American Electrical Power Company project at their Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia and the Summit Clean Energy, LLC project in Texas.
December 4, 2009 DOE Techline

After the third project announced on December 4 dropped out, Secretary Chu announced on March 9, 2010, that funding was being awarded to NRG Energy for a Texas project. The Ramgen CO2 compressor was also included in this grant application. As a result, the Ramgen’s supersonic shock wave based compression technology will be included in the design and planning of these three pivotal demonstrations of large scale CCS.
March 9, 2010 DOE Techline

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory prepared this video documenting how the use of Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) high performance computing resources has significantly advanced the Ramgen technology. This presentation featuring Ramgen's founder, Shawn Lawlor, was shown at the ORNL SC10 exhibit.

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