U.K. Announces £20 Million Carbon Capture Pilot for Gas-Fired Power Plant

Ed Davey, Secretary of the U.K.’s Dept. of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), has announced a new £20 million (US$32 million) project to develop and demonstrate an advanced carbon capture technology for gas-fired power stations. The post-combustion capture technology to be tested uses a structured carbon adsorbent housed within a rotating bed, a process called VeloxoTherm™ developed by Inventys Thermal Technologies, Inc. The objective of the demonstration will be to capture up to 95 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from a 5-MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT). The ultimate goal will be large-scale deployment of the technology by 2020.

The project will be funded by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) and led by Inventys in collaboration with Howden UK, Doosan Power Systems and MAST Carbon International. Howden will manufacture the large rotating devices in which the carbon adsorbents will be housed; Inventys will design the carbon dioxide capture system; Doosan will provide expertise in the area of engineering design, system integration and assessing the commercial value of the technology; MAST will provide the expertise in manufacturing the carbon adsorbent material; and ETI member Rolls-Royce will provide specialist engineering support for the project.