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Tenaska chooses Fluor carbon capture technology
Capture, July 28 2010 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- Tenaska has chosen Fluor Corporation’s Econamine FG Plussm carbon capture technology for use in its proposed Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center, being developed near Sweetwater, Texas.
Trailblazer will be a 600-megawatt (net) electricity generating plant fueled by pulverized coal and is expected to be among the first full-scale commercial power plants in the nation, and the first in Texas, to capture 85 to 90 percent of its CO2 emissions and send them via pipeline to the Permian Basin to be used in enhanced oil recovery.
Based on the projected rate of capture, the plant will emit significantly less CO2 than an equivalent capacity natural gas-fueled plant.
Econamine FG Plussm is a Fluor proprietary, amine-based technology for large-scale, post-combustion CO2 capture. The technology is one of the first and among the most widely applied commercial solutions proven in operating environments to remove CO2 from high-oxygen content flue gases.
Tenaska’s initial design and engineering work for Trailblazer is also being performed by Fluor, the project’s engineering, procurement and construction contractor.
