US DOE backs projects to produce water from carbon capture sites

Two projects that will test emerging water recovery (EWR) technologies to produce usable water from carbon dioxide sites have been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and will receive $31m to validate their proposed approaches. They were selected from the five Brine Extraction Storage Test (BEST) projects that were given $7m funding in September 2015 to explore how to manage reservoir pressure and the flow of stored CO2 in saline reservoirs cost effectively. The DOE's aim is to improve water management and conservation for power generation, hydrocarbon production and industrial processes.

DOE selects projects demonstrating water production from CO2 storage

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from carbon dioxide storage sites.