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Greenhouse IssuesIssues DecemberJune 2010 •2009 Issue • 98Issue 95 GHGT-10 Programme Announced, by Sian Twinning, IEAGHG From the record number of submitted abstracts (nearly 1100), the GHGT-10 Programme Committee had the unenviable task of selecting papers to be presented in either oral or poster format. To assist them the Programme Committee enlisted the aid of CCS experts (a full list can be found at www.ghgt.info/GHGT10_EP.html) to make the initial review and work with the Programme Committee to compile the technical programme. In this issue In thisIn Salah Updateissue P5 A Snap-shot of the new GHGT-10 Homepage DECC and Ferrybridge The draft Technical Programme is now available at: www.ghgt.info/GHGT10_Tech_Prog.html Transboundary Transport for With 259 oral presentations spread over seven parallel sessions and 760 posters Offshore Storage the programme promises something for everyone. Oral sessions include 19 on Capture Developments, 22 covering Storage Developments and 5 on Integrated P6 Systems. The remainder of the 66 sessions are compiled of subject areas covering Legal and Policy Issues, Towards Negative CO2 Emissions, R&D, Utilisation of CO2 and Public Acceptance of CCS. Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining In additional 6 specialist panels have been developed to allow discussion on such topics as Building CCS Infrastructure and Longer Term R&D Agenda plus other ‘hot’ topics. All papers presented as either an oral or poster presentation will be published by Elsevier online in their Energy Proceedia; no P10 differentiation will be made in the proceedings between oral and poster papers. OCC2 Announcement Shortly we will be updating the www.ghgt.info website with a much sleeker, more eyecatching version. This will have an RSS feed and a Twitter service to enable you to keep abreast of updates regarding the conference. P14 Greenhouse Issues No. 98 1 June 2010 • www.ieaghg.org partnership with HTC Purenergy. The IEAGHG Membership Update, FEED study for the Antelope Valley by Toby Aiken, IEAGHG power station focuses on solvent scrubbing of a 120MWe slipstream The IEAGHG is pleased to announce – approximately equivalent to 3,000 that membership formalities are tonnes of CO captured per day. The complete and that ENEL is the latest 2 eventual aim of the project is to use the sponsor member to join the IEAGHG. captured CO for enhanced oil recovery ENEL will be represented by Mr. Mario 2 Graziadio, on the IEAGHG Executive close to the power plant with the CO2 Committee. subsequently stored underground. The initial engineering phase commenced IEAGHG are also pleased to announce ENEL Join IEAGHG as a Sponsor in January 2010 and Doosan Babcock that the members have invited three further industrial companies actively involved in CCS R, D&D around the world to will provide Basin Electric with a become new sponsors. These are DoosanBabcock, EnBW, and Scottish Power. comprehensive assessment to enable them to make the decision to proceed These new members mean that IEAGHG now has 46 member organisations with the full execution of the project. including 19 countries, the EU and OPEC and 25 sponsors. Emissions Reduction Test Facility(ERTF) Over the next pages, there follows a short description of the activities and details of Doosan Babcock and Scottish Power. Doosan Babcock has installed a PCC solvent scrubbing pilot plant on the 160 kWt ERTF, located at its R&D Doosan Babcock CCS Activities, centre in Renfrew, Scotland, to capture by Michael Maloney and others, Doosan Babcock approximately 1 tonne of CO2 per day and to permit further development Doosan Babcock are currently demonstration of Europe’s largest and optimisation of the capture undergoing membership formalities post-combustion CO capture plant 2 process. The solvent scrubbing pilot in advance of joining IEAGHG as a – a 5MWe slipstream equivalent to plant has been designed in house sponsor. Doosan Power Systems is 100 tonnes per day of CO captured. 2 and is being commissioned, with the lead company of a group of four SSE and Vattenfall AG are partnering testing and verification of the process businesses that offer complete plant with Doosan Babcock to develop to follow immediately after. The ERTF solutions to power utilities: Doosan this world class facility along with solvent scrubbing plant will be used Babcock, Škoda Power, Doosan Power three UK universities, all leaders in to carry out performance testing on Systems America and Doosan Power the training of researchers in this a range of solvents, packings and Systems Europe. sector. The project is co-funded by materials of construction. The testing the Technology Strategy Board, the Post-Combustion Capture (PCC) and verification programme will be Department for Energy and Climate Activities: used to further substantiate the actual Change (DECC) and the Northern rate of solvent degradation under CCPILOT100+ Way partnership. Following a one industrial conditions, solvent make up This project will see Doosan Babcock year construction and commissioning requirements, steam consumption and CO capture technology installed at phase, a two year research and test 2 other auxiliary power requirements. Ferrybridge power station in Yorkshire, programme will then take place from United Kingdom. Ferrybridge is a early in 2011 demonstrating Doosan These projects are key milestones 2,000MWe coal-fired station which Babcock CO2 capture technologies. on our roadmap for PCC technology co-fires biomass, owned and In addition to the industrial research where, in parallel with FEED studies and operated by Scottish and and development focus, university large demonstration projects, we will Southern Energy plc (SSE). researchers will participate in the drive development of the technology The £20 million project project to gain operational experience, to improve efficiency, reduce costs and focuses upon the carry out complementary research and improve performance to achieve full construction and help to build the UK skills capacity in commercialisation of the technology this sector. by 2015. Basin Electric Oxyfuel Activities Doosan Babcock was selected to Clean Combustion Test Facility (CCTF) undertake a major carbon capture The CCTF, a 90MWt burner test facility project with US utility Basin Electric was upgraded as part of the OxyCoal- Power Cooperative. The UK: Phase 2 to incorporate the Doosan project is led by Doosan Babcock 40MWt OxyCoal™ combustion Babcock in system. Phase 2 of the OxyCoal-UK project is a collaborative project led by Doosan Babcock, with Scottish Greenhouse Issues No. 98 and Southern 22 June 2010 • www.ieaghg.org transition from air firing to oxyfuel Our roadmap for technology firing on oil and on coal; and air ingress development, as OxyCoal-UK Phase 2 Energy as the prime sponsor. The tests to measure air infiltration during nears completion, focuses on: further project was sponsored by Vattenfall, oxyfuel firing on oil and on coal. optimisation of OxyCoal™ technology; DONG Energy, Air Products and others Testing completed this year includes FEED studies; and 100–200MWe field with support from DECC. The OxyCoal™ Oxyfuel firing tests on coal to obtain demonstrations, building towards combustion system was successfully performance data for varying: flue gas commercialisation with a 1000MWe tested in 2009 to: characterise the recycle rate; burner stoichiometry and OxyCoal™ power plant by 2016. 40MWt OxyCoal™ burner design; to overall excess oxygen; sensitivity to obtain baseline performance data primary and secondary flue gas recycle for air firing on coal; to demonstrate oxygen content. ScottishPower investing in the future of Carbon Capture and Storage, by Andrew Archibald, Scottish Power ScottishPower is working hard to be one of the world leaders in Carbon Capture and Storage technology. Our ambitions are simple: to deliver full-chain, commercial scale CCS in the UK by 2014. Our new membership of the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme is for us, another great step on the road to achieving those ambitions. As one of the two remaining bidders in the UK Government’s CCS Competition, we are now carrying out a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a full-scale capture plant to be retro-fitted to our existing coal-fired power station at Longannet in Fife, Scotland. The FEED process will give us precise data on what it will all cost and significantly de-risk the building and development of the project, taking us ever closer to demonstration. We have added two world class organisations to our from the chimney exhaust gas, which is the costliest part of Consortium to make all of this happen. National Grid, CCS. operator of the national gas pipeline network in the UK, will A key component of SOLVit is the Mobile Test Unit (MTU), be responsible for the onshore transport of the CO2 and Shell, a custom-built mobile test capture facility that has been a global leader in under-sea exploration, will transport the in operation at Longannet for the past year. The unit, built CO2 offshore and inject it into the rock formations more than a and operated by Aker Clean Carbon, provides operational kilometre below the seabed for permanent, safe storage. data from reliable field tests and is a vital stepping stone There are no examples anywhere in the world of the full CCS to having a commercial-scale post-combustion retrofit CCS chain operating at scale and CCS itself is a new industry, so plant up and running at Longannet by 2014. we know we have a lot to learn. With this in mind, we have The technology is not the only thing we’re investing in. invested in a range of research areas to enhance our scheme. On 1st September 2009 ScottishPower officially appointed In particular, we have increased our understanding of the Professor Stuart Haszeldine, of the University of unique characteristics of sub-surface CO2 storage with our Edinburgh, as the world’s first CCS Professor.