Norway’s Statoil has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to undertake verification testing for a technology qualification programme (TCP) for its planned Mongstad carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.
MHI says that it will conduct 3000 hours of testing of its carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology at the Nanko Thermal power plant of the Kansai Electric Power Co in Japan.
The tests form part of a process in which Statoil will select technologies for installation at the CCS plant at the Mongstad combined heat and power plant on the west coast of Norway. Alstom, Siemens, Aker Clean Carbon and a Huaneng-CERI Powerspan joint venture have also been selected to compete for the chance to participate in the Mongstad project.
The CCS project will be one of the largest in the world and will capture 3400 tons per day of CO2 from the 280 MW gas-fired Mongstad power plant. In the next phase of the project, Statoil will select concepts for the front end engineering and design.
Plans call for a final decision on construction of the full-scale CO2 capture facility to be made around 2016, based on the FEED competition.
MHI’s CO2 recovery technology is known as the KM CDR Process. It uses the company’s proprietary KS-1 solvent for CO2 absorption and desorption, which MHI and Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. developed jointly.
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