The 1.2GW coal-fired power plant will be built by China Guodian Corp at Duyun.

The CANSOLV SO2 Scrubbing system will be used to remove SO2 from the plant’s flue gas, and Cansolv will also provide GDLY with engineering services and its SO2 absorbent.

The company said the high purity of the captured SO2 makes it ideal for conversion into sulfuric acid, and in Duyun, this will provide further value through its use in a local fertilizer plant.

Cansolv said its CANSOLV system enables GDLY to avoid about one million tonnes per year of landfill produced from conventional non-regenerable systems, which utilize a once-through absorbent that cannot be reused and therefore generates effluent streams.