CO2 Capture and Sequestration at Alabama Power's Plant Barry - Demonstration Project

摘要

Southern Company and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) will build a demonstration facility to capture carbon dioxide emissions from an existing unit of Alabama Power's Plant Barry near Mobile, Al. Beginning in 2011, between 100,000 and 150,000 tons of CO2 per year would be captured for permanent underground storage in a deep saline geologic formation. The CO2 will be supplied to the DOE's Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB). The CO2 capture technology to be used in this project, called KM-CDR™, was jointly developed by MHI and the Kansai Electric Power Company Inc. The process has been demonstrated at smaller scale at a coal-fired generating station in Japan, and is currently being deployed commercially on natural gas-fired systems around the world. This project represents the largest coal-fired demonstration of the technology. This paper presents the outline and progress of demonstration project.