Norway-headed industrial and civil engineering consultancy Norconsult AS has announced that it Swedish subsidiary Norconsult AB has been selected by municipal energy company Skellefteå Kraft AB for Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a bioenergy with carbon capture utilization and/or storage (BECCUS) facility.
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According to a statement, Skellefteå Kraft is investigating the possibilities of expanding its biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) operations with the separation, capture, and recycling or storage of biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) aka bioenergy with carbon capture utilization and/or storage (BECCUS).
The idea is that biogenic CO2 is separated from the post-combustion flue gases, captured, liquefied, and stored in tanks for use as feedstock for other third-party processes or for permanent storage. In the latter case, leading to negative emissions for Skellefteå Kraft.
Since in this case, it is about biomass fuels, which have a low starting point in terms of emissions, unlike the burning of non-renewable sources, it is possible to achieve negative emissions of carbon dioxide or enable the production of sustainable fuels through the recycling of the carbon dioxide, said Per Nilsson, Head of Department for Energy & Process at Norconsult.
Proposal for a complete process solution
Norconsult will develop a Front End Engineering Design (FEED), for the entire value chain.
This means that we must come up with proposals for a complete performance and process solution together with the choice of equipment to build the facility in question, Per Nilsson explained.
The assignment is in part to visualize how the carbon capture facility itself could look and function. Once the CO2 has been captured, it must be transported to a facility where the gas is liquefied and then stored in refrigerated pressure tanks awaiting transport to final storage or reuse.
Norconsult also produces layouts and area requirements for buildings, process equipment, and systems for storing and loading liquid CO2 for further transportation for use or permanent storage.
Important climate investment
The assignment is being carried out together with CO2 Capsol, a carbon capture technology supplier, and Captimise as expert support.
Denmark-headed consultants COWI is acting as client support.
This is a broad collaborative project, both across company boundaries and within Norconsult where all our different divisions are involved. It is important both for us and for society at large, as it can be such an important climate investment, said Johan Saltin, Business Manager for Energy & Process at Norconsult.
