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South Dakota Gov. to Start IGCC Incentive Program

South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds said the state should encourage the building of IGCC plants in his January State of the State address, the Associated Press reported.

Rounds said the details of a program to entice utilities to build IGCC plants in his state were not yet finalized, but his office was working on putting together a proposal. Basin Electric Power Cooperative has been considering sites in South Dakota and North Dakota for a $1.5 billion IGCC plant. Basin Electric failed in its first attempt to get a federal tax credit for the project.

U.S. Air Force Doing Cold Weather Testing on FT Fuels

The U.S. Air Force is testing Fischer Tropsch (FT) jet fuel, supplied by Tulsa-based Syntroleum, in a B52 flying in cold weather through the middle of February at the Minot Air Base in North Dakota.

A 50/50 mix of conventional jet fuel and FT fuel is being used in a B-52 Stratofortress bomber to see how the FT fuel reacts in extreme cold.

Syntroleum sold the Air Force about 100,000 gallons for testing. The FT fuel went through a similar test done milder weather in September at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Data from the Edwards flights will be combined with the cold weather test results in Minot in a report to be released in June.

CU-Boulder Professor Wins Energy Grant to Improve Gasification SystemsA University of Colorado at Boulder professor got a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop new technologies to improve the performance and economics of clean power generation.

Associate professor of chemical and biological engineering and gas-particle fluidization expert Christine Hrenya is working with the FutureGen Alliance to produce an IGCC plant that sequesters CO2.

The grant will help her study the fluid mechanics of gasification systems, with a specific focus on developing a model in which different-sized solid particles are well mixed and react efficiently.

Other members of Hrenya's team from Princeton, Iowa State University and Particulate Solid...

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