Belle Plaine Integrated Polygeneration CCS Project

Facts:

This project proposes to conduct pre-front end engineering and design and other work as a prerequisite to a decision to go forward with a $5-billion project to build and commission a polygeneration facility in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan. If the facility is constructed, large volumes of petcoke would be gasified and used to produce a number of products, including hydrogen, steam and sulphur, and to generate up to 500 MW in electricity to potentially displace aging coal-fired generation stations in Saskatchewan. 

Process CO2 would also be used by two large fertilizer plants located near the proposed polygeneration facility. Reductions in CO2 emissions would result from capturing and sequestering 80–90 percent of the CO2 from the polygeneration facility, as well as from offsetting the use of natural gas to produce hydrogen and steam at the fertilizer plants. 

The long-term outcomes of this project are expected to be: the successful completion of the construction, commissioning and operation of the first polygeneration facility with integrated CCS in North America; the sequestration of GHG emissions of over 1 Mt per year in EOR and saline aquifer sites

Captured CO2 would be sequestered at enhanced oil recovery sites and in saline aquifers in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Financing

Got funding from ecoEnergy technology initiative in march 2009,  to do pre-front end engineering and design and other work as a prerequisite to a decision.

http://www.ecoaction.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/20090326-1-eng.cfm

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/eneene/pubpub/pdf/ccscsc-eng.pdf