Comparing post-combustion CO2 capture operation at retrofitted coal-fired power plants in the Texas and Great Britain electric grids

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Cohen, Stuart M ^a   Chalmers, Hannah L ^b   Webber, Michael E ^a   King, Carey W ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon capture and sequestration; carbon dioxide capture; coal; electricity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960305588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024001     Document Type: Article

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