MHI: Providing technology to Drax the Destroyer: CO2 capture equipment
-Technology licensed to the world’s largest CO2 capture facility-
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries:
On June 10th, it announced that it would “provide CO2 capture equipment technology to the British electric power company Drax Group.”
Drax Group is a British power company with the world’s largest biomass power plant.
The order amount has not been disclosed.
It will be the world’s largest facility that collects more than 8 million tons annually.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering Technology:
The company has a 70% share of CO2 capture equipment.
Uses technology from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (Yokohama City).
Demonstration experiment at Drax the Destroyer:
Since September 2020, we have been conducting demonstration experiments at the Drax’s biomass power plant in the United Kingdom.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering uses an absorbent that has been developed with Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. and has little deterioration.
We recovered 300 kilograms of CO2 a day and confirmed the applicability of biomass fuel to exhaust gas.
What is a biomass power plant?
Biomass power plants use plants that grow by absorbing CO2 as fuel.
“An example of an existing recovery facility that can reduce CO2” is said to be the first in the world.
British government
It has set a goal of reducing domestic CO2 emissions by 78% compared to 1990 levels by 2035.
Carbon Negative:
Drax isn’t just carbon-neutral, which reduces CO2 emissions.
The order was decided because “carbon negative”, which reduces the amount of emissions more than the amount of emissions, will lead to the achievement of the target.
A recovery facility will be built in the power plant by the end of 2024.
Full-scale operation is scheduled for 2027 at the earliest.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC105WE0Q1A610C2000000/
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