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Carbon-negative bioenergy project underway with Chevron, Microsoft and Schlumberger - Renewable Energy World
https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/...gy-project-underway-with-chevron-microsoft-and-schlumberger/
The plant will convert agricultural waste biomass, such as almond trees, into a renewable synthesis gas that will be mixed with oxygen in a combustor to generate electricity. More than 99% of the carbon from the process is expected to be captured for permanent storage by injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) underground into nearby deep geologic formations.
By using biomass fuel that consumes CO2 over its lifetime to produce power and then storing the produced CO2, the process is designed to result in net-negative carbon emissions, because it removes greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. The plant, when completed, is expected to remove about 300,000 tons of CO2 annually.
The facility will help improve air quality in the Central Valley by using approximately 200,000 tons of agricultural waste annually, in line with the recent California Air Resources Control Board plan to begin phasing out almost all agricultural burning in the Valley by 2025, said the companies in a press release. The bioenergy technology they will use is designed to operate without routine emissions of nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide and particulates from combustion produced by conventional biomass plants, they said.