据Oil & Gas Journal网站3月1日华盛顿报道 美国能源部已经向8个以碳捕获与封存（CCS）技术为中心的研究项目授予了近2400万美元，在2月27日与国际能源署执行主任Fatih Birol举行的联合记者招待会上，能源部部长Rick Perry宣布了这一事项。
Perry说：“到2040年，世界仍将依靠化石燃料来满足77%的能源需求。我们的目标是以更清洁的方式生产它们，这些项目将使美国和世界在这方面都能使用几乎零排放的煤炭和天然气。”
Birol数小时后对美国参议院能源和自然资源委员会表示：“碳捕获与封存技术是我们能为解决世界能源需求和气候变化问题所做的最关键的事情。太阳能和风能正在渗透能源市场，但它们几乎完全集中在发电上。工业部门使用的能源主要是煤炭和天然气，更多的CCS技术研究和开发将提供帮助。”
能源部化石能源办公室表示，选定的项目，每个项目将获得大约300万美元的联邦支持，将重点发展溶剂、吸附剂和膜技术，以解决与减少碳捕获成本相关的科技挑战和知识缺口。”
吴恒磊 编译自 Oil & Gas Journal
原文如下：
DOE awards grants for CCS technology research efforts
The US Department of Energy has awarded nearly $24 million to eight research projects centered on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, US Sec. of Energy Rick Perry announced during a Feb. 27 joint press conference with International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol.
“By 2040 the world will still rely on fossil fuels for 77% of its energy use. Our goal is to produce them in a cleaner way,” Perry said. “These projects will allow America, and the world for that matter, to use both coal and natural gas with near-zero emissions.”
“CCS is the most critical thing we can do to solve the world’s energy demand and climate change problems,” Birol told the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee a few hours later. “Solar and wind are penetrating energy markets, but they’re almost exclusively concentrated on power generation. The bulk of energy used in the industrial sector is primarily coal and gas. More CCS research and development would help.”
The selected projects, each of which will receive about $3 million of federal support, will focus on the development of solvent, sorbent, and membrane technologies to address scientific challenges and knowledge gaps associated with reducing carbon capture costs, DOE’s Fossil Energy Office said.
