Aker Carbon Capture signs deal for Co2 capture at European power plants

Aker Carbon Capture, a Norwegian carbon capture company, has signed a pre-FEED contract with an European power company to implement carbon capture at a portfolio of power plants in mainland Europe, it announced on Octobner 19. The planned capture capacity could reach up to 14mn tonnes/year CO2 for the applicable sites combined.

The pre-FEED contract will involve Aker Carbon Capture working with the customer to assess the optimal CO2 capture and compression, as well as the heat recovery potential and heat integration solutions for the applicable plants. This will reduce the total heating and cooling demands related to capturing and conditioning the CO2.

Aker Carbon Capture aims to deliver its Big Catch concept, which is fully integrated into the plants of the customer. This includes both advanced heat integration, and downstream integration enabling record-low energy consumption by making it possible to reuse energy along the value chain, the company said.

Aker Carbon Capture is already developing a full-scale Big Catch facility with CO2 capture, conditioning, compression, heat integration, intermediate storage and loading for the Brevik cement plant in Norway. Brevik CCS will capture 400,000 tonnes/year of CO2.

The company is also currently delivering a Just Catch unit with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes/year CO2 to Twence's waste-to-energy facility in the Netherlands. In May of this year, Aker Carbon Capture was awarded a carbon capture project by Orsted, a renewable energy company, for the delivery of five Just Catch units to the Orsted Kalundborg Hub in Denmark.