Bruce Johnstone, The Leader-PostPublished: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
A $1.4-billion clean coal project at Boundary Dam power station will use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology developed over the last couple of decades at the University of Regina and licensed by a Regina-based company.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to officially announce the federal government's contribution of $240 million to the project, promised in last month's budget, at a news conference in Estevan today.
The clean coal project is expected to use "post-combustion, amine-scrubbing" technology developed by the U of R's International Test Centre for CO2 Capture.
The ITC research team is led by two U of R professors, Paitoon Tontiwachwithikul, considered one of the world's leading experts in carbon capture and storage research, and Malcolm Wilson, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
"This is technology that has been developed over the last 15 years between Malcolm and Paitoon,'' said Lionel Kambeitz, CEO of HTC Purenergy, the Regina company licensed to market the CCS technology. "They've done a fabulous job of taking that to that commercial level."
"We've only been involved for going on to our seventh year,'' said Kambeitz, referring to HTC's attempts to commercialize the U of R's CCS technology
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