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Ferrybridge post-combustion project

Brief description:

Ferrybridge post-combustion project: Read more; Capture Method:
Post-combustion
Capture Technology:
Amine
Capital cost:
£21m
Financial support:
finsup
--> Volume:
100 tonnes per day tonnes; 53.7120486 -1.2734088

Facts:

Main developer: Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)

Country: United Kingdom

Project type: Capture

Scale: Small

Status: Under construction

Capital cost: £21m

Year of operation 2011

Industry: Coal Power Plant

MW capacity: 5

Capture method: Post-combustion

Capture technology: Amine

New or retrofit: Retrofit

Transport of CO2 by: none

Type of storage: Not decided

Volume: 100 tonnes per day tonnes/CO2

Ferrybridge power station, Yorkshire

In March 2010, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) was awarded funding of £6.3 million towards trialling post-combustion carbon capture technology at its Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire. The pilot plant became operational in November 2011.

SSE’s project partners are Doosan Babcock and Vattenfall, with capture technology being supplied by Canada's HTC Purenergy. The project aims to demonstrate the characteristics of the capture technology, which could then be used at commercial scale.

SSE originally announced in June 2006 its intention to install “clean coal” technology at Ferrybridge, in partnership with Mitsui Babcock, Siemens and UK Coal, on a new 500MW supercritical boiler, which was later upgraded to plans for an 800MW capacity. Ferrybridge is currently a 1995MW combined coal power plant.

The pilot plant CCPilot 100+ has been designed and built by Doosan and will collect around 100 tonnes of CO2 per day from a flue gas slipstream corresponding to about 5MW of electric power. The technology uses an amine solvent that will be recycled after the CO2 has been extracted.

Results from the trial were intended to guide Vattenfall's Jänschwalde CCS demo in Germany. However, this project has now been cancelled.

Financing

The partners are investing a total of £21m, with £6.3m coming from the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Technology Strategy Board and Northern Way. The proposed new supercritical plant is expected to cost SSE £250m, while the carbon capture equipment is estimated to require funding of around £100m, if deployed.

Timing

The pilot plant started up in November 2011, becoming the largest carbon capture pilot of its size to be integrated into an operating plant in the UK.

North East CCS transport network

CO2Sense, a company of development agency Yorkshire Forward, is developing plans for an open, shared CO2 transport and storage network within the Yorkshire and Humber region. This would provide the transport and storage solution for regional projects such as Ferrybridge. See the project page for more details.