Drax talks on CO2 capture and storage
Drax talks on CO2 capture and storage
A report in the Yorkshire Post says that Drax is conducting feasibility studies into the application of CCS at the UK's largest coal fired power plant.
Drax is looking into how it might join the Humber Cluster concept promoted by Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency.
The Humber cluster sits around a corridor parallel to the M62 and includes Drax, Eggborough, Ferrybridge, Killingholme, Immingham and Keadby power stations and Scunthorpe steel works.
The pipeline would stretch from Ferrybridge, at the junction of the M62 and the A1, to Theddlethorpe, on the south bank of the Humber, where it would be taken to depleted oil and gas fields or large deep saline aquifers.
CO2 Sense Yorkshire, a business development company owned by Yorkshire Forward, said the technology for the project is proven.
A briefing note said: "Instead of being released into the atmosphere, CO2 is captured and compressed. The compressed CO2 is pumped through a network of pipelines, some new and some formerly used for natural gas, to a suitable well previously used for gas extraction.
"The CO2 is pumped down through the well into impermeable porous rock which previously held gas deep beneath the sea bed.
"The CO2 filters into the porous sandstone reservoir filling the tiny spaces which once held natural gas. It is trapped from escaping by layers of solid impermeable rock above, just as the gas was trapped for millions of years."
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Labels: Drax-Humber Cluster- CO2 capture
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/businessnews/Drax-joins-talks-over-carbon.6133953.jp
A report in the Yorkshire Post says that Drax is conducting feasibility studies into the application of CCS at the UK's largest coal fired power plant.
Drax is looking into how it might join the Humber Cluster concept promoted by Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency.
The Humber cluster sits around a corridor parallel to the M62 and includes Drax, Eggborough, Ferrybridge, Killingholme, Immingham and Keadby power stations and Scunthorpe steel works.
The pipeline would stretch from Ferrybridge, at the junction of the M62 and the A1, to Theddlethorpe, on the south bank of the Humber, where it would be taken to depleted oil and gas fields or large deep saline aquifers.
CO2 Sense Yorkshire, a business development company owned by Yorkshire Forward, said the technology for the project is proven.
A briefing note said: "Instead of being released into the atmosphere, CO2 is captured and compressed. The compressed CO2 is pumped through a network of pipelines, some new and some formerly used for natural gas, to a suitable well previously used for gas extraction.
"The CO2 is pumped down through the well into impermeable porous rock which previously held gas deep beneath the sea bed.
"The CO2 filters into the porous sandstone reservoir filling the tiny spaces which once held natural gas. It is trapped from escaping by layers of solid impermeable rock above, just as the gas was trapped for millions of years."
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Labels: Drax-Humber Cluster- CO2 capture
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/businessnews/Drax-joins-talks-over-carbon.6133953.jp
posted by powerplantccs at
9:25 PM
3 Comments:
If this is proved on a large scale in Humber, it would certainly be a very helpful pointer for others and would be a new industry that would benefit the area.
Drax would likely be generating power using some combination of CCS and biomass.
The Humber cluster is credible and Drax needs to be in a position to capitalise on that.
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