Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded contracts for a feasibility study to implement carbon capture at a biomass combined heat and power facility in Germany, and a pre-FEED study for a project in Sweden.
The planned capacity of the German project is 250 000 tonnes of CO2 per year. For this project, Aker Carbon Capture aims to deliver its standardised ‘Just Catch’ modular packaged CO2 capture product.
The study will assess the optimal CO2 capture, conditioning, liquefaction, and temporary storage facility as well as the heat recovery potential and heat integration solutions. This will reduce the total heating and cooling demands related to capturing and conditioning of the CO2.
This is the second study awarded to Aker Carbon Capture in Germany, which is Europe’s largest CO2 emitter. The country aims to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 65% by 2030 compared with 1990, and to become carbon neutral by 2045. CCUS has been identified as playing an important role in achieving these targets. The German government is expected to publish its Carbon Management Strategy this autumn.
Aker Carbon Capture is currently delivering a Just Catch plant with a capacity of 100 000 tonnes CO2 per year at Twence's waste-to-energy facility in the Netherlands, and in May started the delivery of five Just Catch plants to Ørsted’s bioenergy facilities in Denmark. Aker’s aim is to standardise and modularise carbon capture plants, with reduced footprint and significant cost and energy benefits, to the mid-scale emitter market.?
Pre-FEED contract
Aker has also been awarded a pre-FEED (pre-Front End Engineering Design) contract for a Just Catch application by an as yet undisclosed Swedish energy company. The award follows an earlier feasibility study contract for another Swedish company, Söderenergi, announced in June.
Sweden aims to become carbon neutral by 2045 at the latest, followed by the achievement of negative net CO2 emissions. Sweden is positioning itself to become a global leader in generating high quality and durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits from bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) from its large bio-energy sector.
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