(MENAFN) ExxonMobil, the American multinational oil and Gas Corporation, is backing a new process that would capture carbon dioxide form power facilities, and then utilize it to feed fuel cells.
The Texas-based oil behemoth has recently revealed that it is expanding a partnership with Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy to develop the smaller company's fuel-cell technology.
Specifically, FuelCell is seeking to ultimately combine carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), which captures carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants, with carbonate fuel cells.
ExxonMobil estimates that a 500MW power plant using these fuel cells could generate 120MW of additional power, compared to a loss of 50MW with conventional CCS technology.
However, one of the major drawbacks is the enormous amount of energy needed to separate carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, and then compress it for storage.
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