Construction Begins on Project to Demonstrate Entirely New Natural Gas Power Cycle

Construction of a 50-MWt plant that will demonstrate a novel oxyfuel natural gas power system using Allam Cycle technology with zero atmospheric emissions has kicked off in La Porte, Texas.

The demonstration plant is being built by the technology’s developer, Durham, N.C.–based NET Power, along with Exelon Generation, CB&I, and 8 Rivers Capital. NET Power’s Allam Cycle—named for its lead inventor, Rodney Allam—burns natural gas (or synthetic gas from coal gasification) with pure oxygen and uses high-pressure, supercritical carbon dioxide (CO₂) as a working fluid in a semi-closed loop to drive a combustion turbine. Its byproducts are mostly liquid water and the CO₂ that is recycled by the process.

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