Carbon capture
technology
deployed
at power plant
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Ltd has announced the
successful start of operations
of a 25 Megawatt carbon
capture facility at Southern
Company’s Plant Barry,
owned and operated
by Alabama Power.
This facility utilizes the KM
CDR Process
®
capture
technology jointly
developed by Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries Ltd and
the Kansai Electric Power
Co Inc.
Built in collaboration with
Southern Company it is
believed to be the world’s
largest carbon capture
and sequestration facility
attached to a coal-fired
power plant using a proven
capture technology.
It will capture
approximately 150,000
tons of CO2 annually
(500 tons/day)
for permanent underground
storage in a deep saline
geologic formation.
MHIA president & CEO
Mitch Morimoto said:
“This is a significant milestone
and is part of our strategic
effort to commercialize
our KM CDR Process
®
CO
2
technology.
Coal is abundant and
relatively cheap, so it is
important for world energy
security and environmental
protection to develop
technologies and to find
ways to preserve coal as a
fuel source.”
Captured CO
2
will be
supplied to the Southeast
Regional Carbon
Sequestration Partnership
and transported roughly
11 miles by pipeline before
injection 9,500 feet
below the Citronelle
oilfield where it will remain,
permanently trapped in
the geologic formation.
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