Company/Alliance: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Southern Company, SECARB ( U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership), Electric Power Research Institute.
Location: Plant Barry power station, Mobile, Alabama, US
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 25 MW slip stream of the 2567MW plant. 100'000 to 150'000 tons of CO2 Captured anually.
Capture Technology: Post-combustion with chilled ammonia
CO2 Fate: Sequestration into the Citronelle Oil Field.
Timing: Capture (2011)
Motivation/Economics: MHI's CO2 recovery technology is KM-CDR Process™ ("The Process") that uses the company's proprietary KS-1 solvent for CO2 absorption and desorption, which MHI and the Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. jointly developed. The Process requires considerably lower energy consumption than other technologies. Through the demonstration of the efficiency of The Process for the level of impurities contained in coal-fired flue gas in order to confirm the technology which is commercially viable. Southern has not provided a cost estimate for this project.
Comments: SECARB is responsibile for the CO2 transport and sequestration. A pipeline will transport the CO2 to the site, approximately 10 miles from the plant, operated by Denbury resources.
Project Link: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announces Carbon Capture Technology to be demonstrated in United States (May 2009)
Other Sources and Press Release:
DOE announces news of SECARB's involvement in CCS project (July 2009)
Penn Energy: Southern to tesh MHI carbon capture technology (May 2009)
Platts news release (May 2009)
Date Modified July 20, 2009
