MHIENG, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, a group company part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, recently received an order for a compact CO2 capture system for a biomass power plant in Japan.
The order comes from Taihei Dengyo Kaisha, a provider of plant construction, maintenance, and auxiliary services. The CO2 capture system offers a capacity of 0.3 tonnes per day.
Taihei Dengyo aims to achieve a circular society through the establishment of carbon-negative solutions from carbon-neutral systems. The firm also hopes to make this shift through the separation, capture, and initial storage of the CO2 emitted by biomass power plants, and later use of the stored carbon to grow plants, for example.
As part of the initiative, a newly ordered compact CO2 capture system is being introduced. Plans call for its integration into a 7 MW class biomass power plant operated by Taihei Dengyo at an urban complex in Hiroshima City.
According to the report by BioEnergy News, “The system is based on a test plant manufactured to verify the impact of applying the new CO2 capture system to a biomass flue gas source, which made early commercialisation possible. The base system is a pilot facility used in the BECCS project conducted at a biomass power plant owned by Drax.
The CO2 capture technology adopted in the new system is the KM CDR Process™, jointly developed by MHIENG and Kansai Electric Power Co, which employs the high performance KS-1™ amine solvent. It significantly reduces energy consumption.”
By the end of the past November, MHIENG had delivered a total of 13 commercial plants using the KM CDR Process at locations globally, and two more are currently under construction.
