The agreement stipulates the terms of 180 MEUR of EU funding under the EC’s European Energy Program for Recovery (EERP) to support the CCS technology development for the 300MWe oxy-combustion power plant.
The project, which is one of six European CCS projects selected for funding under the EERP is utilizing circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) technology.
The goal of the project is to demonstrate all aspects of a commercial scale supercritical oxy-combustion CFB power plant with CO2 capture, transport and storage in an underground saline aquifer for a range of domestic and imported coals, petroleum cokes and biomass.
Endesa’s Compostilla plant site has been identified as the location for this full-scale demonstration plant, based on preliminary positive geological surveys of nearby saline aquifers for storing the plant’s CO2, and the ability to utilize the infrastructure at the existing coal-powered plant.
Foster Wheeler’s Finnish and Spanish subsidiaries within its Global Power Group have teamed with Endesa Generacion and CIUDEN to support the first phase of this Spanish CCS project.
This includes the validation of the plant’s design with a 30MW Foster Wheeler CFB steam generator incorporated in CIUDEN’s integrated CCS Technology Development Plant currently under construction in Spain.
At the heart of the coal-fired CCS plant will be Foster Wheeler’s Flexi-Burn CFB technology, capable of operating either in a conventional or a carbon capture mode. However, when operating in the carbon capture mode, the CFB combustion process is supported by a mixture of oxygen and recycled flue gas.
This results in producing a CO2-rich flue gas containing over 91% CO2 (in the dry flue gas), which reduces the need for CO2 separation equipment.
