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Air Products joins Schwarze Pumpe pilot
Capture, Apr 01 2009 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- Air Products will install its proprietary CO2 capture, purification and compression system at Vattenfall’s research and development facility in Schwarze Pumpe, Germany.
The two companies also executed a joint research and development agreement related to the project. Air Products’ pilot plant is to be operational at Schwarze Pumpe in December 2010.
Air Products will take flue gas directly off Vattenfall’s 30 megawatt (MW) wall-fired boiler at the oxyfuel pilot plant. It will purify and compress the carbon dioxide, a portion of which will ultimately be transported for sequestration.
Air Products’ proprietary sour compression technology uses a staged compression process to optimize pressure, hold-up, and residence time to allow removal of impurities during the compression process.
This allows cost savings in the oxyfuel combustion process and minimizes the concentration of acidic components, important in preventing corrosion during the CO2 sequestering process, the company says.
The pilot will demonstrate the efficient purification of CO2, and remove inert gases, in particular oxygen. In addition, it will incorporate novel membrane technology, targeting carbon capture rates as high as 98 percent.
Air Products is currently working on several carbon capture and storage demonstration projects around the world. In early March the company announced work with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to design and construct a CO2 purification system in support of an oxyfuel technology development project at a boiler simulation facility in Windsor, Connecticut.
