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Illinois ICCS Project (ADM)

Brief description:

Illinois ICCS Project (ADM): Read more; Capture Method:
Other
Capture Technology:
Other
Capital cost:
approx $208 million
Financial support:
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--> Volume:
1 million tonnes; 39.8403147 -88.9548001

Facts:

Main developer: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) Schlumberger Carbon Services

Country: USA

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Large

Status: Under construction

Capital cost: approx $208 million

Financal support:
US Recovery Act 2009
Clean Coal Power Initiative, US

Year of operation 2013

Industry: Biofuel

Capture method: Other

Capture technology: Other

New or retrofit: Retrofit

Transport of CO2 by: Pipeline

Storage site: Mt. Simon Sandstone

Type of storage: Aquifers

Volume: 1 million tonnes/CO2

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is leading a consortium to build and operate a facility to demonstrate capture technology at its ethanol plant in Decatur, Illinois. The project will capture CO2 directly using compression and dehydration. The facility will capture up to 1 million tonnes a year of CO2, created as a byproduct of biofuels production, which will be transported 1.5 kilometres by pipeline for storage in onshore deep saline formations (Mount Simon Sandstone formation).

Construction activities began at the ethanol plant in August 2011, the first large-scale integrated CCS demo funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to move into the construction phase. Test injection of CO2 began in November 2011, after the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency approved operations in October. The CO2 is captured from ADM's ethanol plant, then compressed, transported and injected into a deep saline formation more than a mile underground. Results will determine the suitablity of the site for long-term storage, and a comprehensive monitoring programme is in place.

The linked Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium’s (MGSC) Illinois Basin-Decatur Test Injection into a deep saline formation is expected to start in late 2011 using CO2 captured from the ethanol plant. The injection rate is expected to be 1000 tonnes of CO2 per day, or 365,000 tonnes per year, and the test will operate for three years, for a total CO2 injected of around one million tonnes.

The consortium includes Richland Community College, Schlumberger Carbon Services and Illinois State Geological Survey. The company is part of the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium. It is also one of three CCS projects selected to receive phase one and two funding from the DoE, and it will be managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) as part of one of its key research programmes.

In March 2010, ADM completed a 3D seismic survey of the identified saline reservoir storage site.

Financing

The total project cost is estimated at around $208 million. It has been pledged around $141 million funding from the DOE, which awarded phase one funding in October 2009 from its Industrial Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ICCS) Program – through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It received a phase two award from DOE in June 2010 (see press releases below).

Timing

The projected was originally set to have a start up-date in 2012. According to information from the DoE, the operations phase of the project—capture and storage of the CO2—is expected to begin in late summer 2013. The operations phase will create approximately 260 jobs.