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MHI to demonstrate carbon capture technology on Coal-Fired Power Plant |
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
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 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric
utility, will jointly demonstrate a plant to test technology enabling recovery
of between 100,000 and 150,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year
from flue-gas emissions from a coal-fired power generation plant. Specifically,
MHI will be responsible for plant engineering, equipment supply, and provision
of technical support during the demonstration phase.
The demonstration, involving the equivalent of
emissions from 25 megawatts of the plant's generating capacity, is scheduled to
begin operating by the first quarter of 2011. While the technology to recover
and compress CO2 from natural gas-fired flue gas has already been applied
commercially, the planned development and demonstration testing of the plant in
the application of CO2 recovery, will be on a scale unprecedented anywhere in
the world, according to the company’s press release.
Through this project and
others, MHI and Southern Company seek to support the goal of better
understanding the impacts of reducing CO2 emissions from electricity generation
and find ways to reliably supply energy with lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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