The Callide Oxyfuel Project is an international low-emissions coal demonstration project at the Callide Power Station in Biloela, Queensland.

This world-leading project is designed to demonstrate oxyfuel combustion capture technology retrofitted to an existing Australian coal-fired power plant, and to research how it might be applied to new power stations.

The project, which aims to capture 90% of the CO₂ emissions from coal combustion, will begin Oxyfuel demonstration in late-2011 and will run for two years. Construction is now underway on the oxygen and CO₂ capture components. [PDF] The project will also demonstrate geological carbon storage. The Denison Trough, a geological area situated 300km from the Callide A Power Station, has been identified as an ideal site to store the CO₂ emissions.

The $206 million project is headed by CS Energy Ltd in conjunction with an international team of partners, including IHI Corporation (Japan), J-Power (Japan), Mitsui & Company (Japan) Schlumberger Oilfields Australia and Xstrata Coal.

ACA Low Emissions Technologies (ACALET), and the Commonwealth, Queensland and Japanese governments are providing major financial support for the Callide Oxyfuel Project, and it is a flagship project for the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate.

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