Combustion Research Facility Fires Up
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 13:31
in Physics & Chemistry
An experimental combustion facility at Washington University in St. Louis will be used to study the burning of coal with oxygen rather than with air, which contains large amounts of nitrogen. Oxy-coal combustion makes carbon capture and sequestration much easier by raising the carbon dioxide concentration in exhaust gases from 15 percent to 95 percent.