Facts:

The Bellingham plant is a gas-fired 320 MWe combined cycle unit located in Bellingham, Massachusetts. The facility runs under base load conditions and provides electricity to Boston Edison Company, Commonwealth Electric, and Montaup Electric.

Each of the plant’s two combustion turbines are equipped with heat recovery steam generators which produce high pressure steam for production of additional electricity in a steam turbine generator, and low pressure steam for export to the adjacent Carbon Dioxide Recovery Plant.

A Fluor Econamine FG^SM scrubber system is used to scrub the CO2 from the flue gas. This is of the regenerable alkanolamine type and uses an inhibited 30% wt MEA solution. It is capable of recovering 85-95 % of the CO2 present in the flue gas. It can generate 99-95+% pure CO2. The CO2 Recovery Plant captures 15% of the flue gas, leaving the cogeneration facility to produce 320-350 tons/day of high-grade carbon dioxide for sale to two major distributors. Capture costs are estimated to be ~US $100/ton. The CO2 is applied to food processing duties.

The CO2-treatment plant is closed.

More information

About the powerplant;

http://www.gdfsuezenergyresources.com/About/aboutus_power.aspx

http://www.nexteraenergyresources.com/content/where/portfolio/pdf/Bellinghams.pdf

http://www.tractebelpowerinc.com/utilities/documents/Bellingham.pdf

 

Homepage:

http://www.ieaghg.org/rdd/project_specif