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BP and Powerspan develop ammonia CCS technology
Capture, Aug 13 2007 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- BP Alternative Energy and Powerspan Corporation have announced plans to work together developing a new ammonia based carbon capture technology for power plants.
A pilot testing project is expected to begin early 2008 at FirstEnergy Corporation's R.E. Burger plant in Shadyside, Ohio, processing 20 tons of carbon dioxide a day from a 1 megawatt power generation. The carbon dioxide will be buried in an 8,000 foot test well at the site.
FirstEnergy is collaborating with the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration
Partnership on the sequestration test project. It may be the first ever demonstration program for carbon capture and storage at a conventional coal fired power plant.
Powerspan developed the technology together with the US Department of Environment's National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The technology can work together with other Powerspan technologies to remove NOx, SO2, mercury and fine particulates.
?We consider Powerspan's ECO2 technology among the most promising solutions for postcombustion
capture of CO2,? says Jonathan Forsyth, CO2 Capture Team Leader at BP
Alternative Energy.
?This is an opportunity for BP to broaden the scope of our low carbon
power offering by including a CO2 capture technology that is compatible with new and existing
coal fired power stations.
"The priority in our collaboration with Powerspan is to successfully
demonstrate the technology and advance it to full-scale commercial deployment as rapidly as
possible.?
