Europe – Aker Carbon Capture has signed a pre-FEED deal with a major European power provider to implement carbon capture at a portfolio of power stations on the European continent. The overall annual collection capacity for the suitable locations might be up to 14 million tonnes of CO2.
The pre-FEED will evaluate the best CO2 capture and compression techniques, as well as the potential for heat recovery and heat integration strategies for the relevant plants. As a result, the overall heating and cooling requirements for capturing and conditioning CO2 will be reduced. In order to fully integrate its customized Big Catch idea into the customer’s plants, Aker Carbon Capture seeks to supply it. This features sophisticated heat integration as well as downstream integration, the latter of which enables record-low energy consumption by allowing energy to be reused throughout the value chain.
For the Brevik cement mill in Norway, Aker Carbon Capture is building a full-scale Big Catch facility including CO2 capture, conditioning, compression, heat integration, intermediate storage, and loading. Brevik CCS will capture 400,000 tonnes of CO2 annually and will be the first carbon capture facility of its kind at an industrial scale at a cement production anywhere in the world.
Aker Carbon Capture is currently supplying a Just Catch unit with a capacity of 100,000 tons CO2 per year to Twence’s waste-to-energy facility in the Netherlands. Ørsted, a leader in renewable energy worldwide, awarded a large-scale carbon capture project to Aker Carbon Capture in May of this year for the delivery of five Just Catch units to the Ørsted Kalundborg Hub in Denmark. These flagship initiatives support Aker Carbon Capture’s goal to standardize and modularize carbon capture systems for the mid-scale emitter market, with a smaller environmental impact and significant cost and energy savings.
