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Sargas Husnes Fact Sheet: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Project

Company/Alliance: Tinfos AS, Sør-Norge Aluminium AS, Eramet Norway AS, and Sargas AS

Location: Husnes, Kvinnherad Municipality in Hordaland, Norway

Feedstock: Coal

Size: 400 MW: 2.6 Mt/yr CO2 captured and stored

Capture Technology: Post-combustion

CO2 Fate: EOR offshore, North Sea oilfields

Timing: Project has had no activity since 2008
Original timing: Seeking for bids (2007), project start-up (2008), and production (2010-15)

Motivation/Economics:

The overall cost of the project is NOK 4.5 billion (US $700 million). The Norwegian Clean Energy Group is seeking bids from construction firms to cover the cost of the project. The coal will be combusted at higher pressures, creating a 20 times higher pressure of CO2 in the exhaust than at conventional plants, decreasing the cost of post-combustion separation. The capture rate is greater than 95%.

Comments:

The Sargas technology enables modules of 100 MW to capture SOx, NOx and CO2. This scaleable technology (in 100 MW steps) is compact and available. There is an estimated 20% cost reduction at the 400 MW scale.

Project Link: Sargas AS website

Other Sources and Press Releases:
Sargas press conference: CO2 capture tests result achieved (June 2008)
Clean Coal-Fired Power Plant Test Traps 95 Percent of Carbon (November 2007)
Carbon Dioxide Finds a Market in the North Sea (December 2006)
‘Clean’ coal power plant plan for Norway (November 2006)