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2010 | Endesa, Ciuden and Foster Wheeler have signed with Europe the contract to further CO2 capture and storage technologies, applied in a 300-MWe power station via oxy-fuel firing.
The OXY-CFB-300 Project, granted with a subsidy amounting to 180 million Euros for the preliminary stage of the technology validation, is within the framework of EU actions to foster CCS technologies in order to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration.
Endesa, Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN) and Foster Wheeler have joined in this OXY-CFB-300 project, with a Financial Guarantee of 180 million Euros provided by the European Commission (EC). These funds, earmarked for the construction of a 30 MW (t) plant, will prove and validate the use of the oxy-fuel technology in a circulating fluidized bed boiler (CFB) and in an experimental CO2 storage plant, as well as the identification and characterization of potential sites for industrial CO2 storage and feasibility studies of a 300-MW plant which, once its construction is scheduled, will become the first of its kind worldwide. It will be located at Endesa's Compostilla II power plant (El Bierzo, Spain), and will be operating by 2015.
The two companies and the Fundación, (dependent of the Government of Spain), have signed a collaboration agreement, which will involve undertaking a public-private interest convergence that will allow them to tackle commission-engaged activities focused on validating, on trading basis, and the selected CO2 capture, and the transport and geological storage technologies. This will make it possible to renew fossil fuel power plants by 2020 in Spain and the European Union, and reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere in the fight against climate change.
Background.
Endesa and Ciuden signed a strategic collaboration agreement in 2008 to meet their respective activities up to the scheduled capture date. In turn, Endesa and Foster Wheeler had reached an agreement a year before to assess and develop the preliminary stages of a trading carbon capture demonstration plant. On the other hand, in 2007, Ciuden started the design of the most complete Technology Development Oxy-fuel Power Plant (TDP) in the world, equipped, among other technologies, with a 30MWt circulating fluidized bed boiler, supplied by Foster Wheeler.
In 2009, Endesa and Ciuden, together with Foster Wheeler a technological partner, presented to the European Commission’s European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) the preliminary stage of the so-called Compostilla Project, chosen together with five other projects from Germany, United Kingdom, Holland, Poland and Italy, and with a 180 million-euro allowance. Besides scientific-technological criteria, the Commission assessed the high definition of the project and the collaboration among public and private institutions, which is not a feature in any of the other selected projects.
Stages.
The OXY-CFB-300 Project consists of two stages, each one committed to a series of acts. In the first stage (2009-2012), contracted with the Council already, Ciuden will culminate the construction and will carry out the functional tests of its technological development plant to validate the fluidized bed boiler in oxycombustion of 30 MWt. Ciuden is engaged in the development of an applied research program that will allow to raise the CO2 geological storage process with sufficient scientific and technological knowledge through an experimental plant in Hontomín (Burgos) and the construction and operation of a test unit for CO2 transport, to resolve associated technical issues.
Endesa, as Project coordinator, will carry out the Technical Feasibility studies, analyze risks, and the basic engineering of a demonstration CO2 capture plant with a power of 300 MWe. They will also be in charge of the definition and characterization of the valid locations for storage of the CO2 generated in the future operation of the Demonstration OXY-CFB-300 plant. They will also be in charge of the basic engineering works of the CO2 transport line for the connection between the demonstration plant and the CO2 storage site. Foster Wheeler will develop the basic design of the OXY-CFB-300 boiler of the future plant and the validation of the oxycombustion capture technology in circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers in collaboration with Ciuden.
The parties are committed in the search for the financing and grants of the Phase II of the Project (2013-2015), in which Endesa and Ciuden, jointly with other partners and as soon as it is verified its viability, will be able to carry out the erection and operation of the 300 MWe Plant and the development and management of the industrial storage that will store one million tones per year.
Economical Resource.
The European Commission contributes to the Phase I activities with a total amount of 180 MEUR, from which Endesa receives around 45%, Ciuden around 51%, and Foster Wheeler the 2,9%.
The originality of the project Endesa-Ciuden-Foster Wheeler is that this project is the only one selected by the EU that will develop the oxycombustion technology in circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers with CO2 storage, in deep saline aquifers, and above all through a public-private collaboration, as already emphasized.
The EC considers that the CCS represents a great tool to fight against the climate change, because the CO2 emissions coming from coal power plants and heavy industry, as cement sector, among other industrial activities, would be reduced by 91%. Actions as the ones started years ago by CIUDEN, ENDESA and FWES place our country in an excellent position for the new technological development and community financing opportunities that are going to be opened, without any doubt, in an imminent way, in particular, the so-called CCS European Industrial Initiative.
ENDESA, a leading Company in the Iberian market and the largest private electrical multinational in South America, considers this initiative inside their target to fight against climate change through promoting a new energy model, global and sustainable in their objective markets, and is completely integrated in their business strategy, reflected in their 2008-2012 Sustainable Strategic Plan.
La Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN), set up in May 2006, is the main Spanish Government institution in the development of programs in capture and geological storage that pursues the reduction of CO2 emissions and the main greenhouse gas effect. It constitutes an exponent of the Government commitment to develop the technologies that make the use of clean carbon and the fight against climate change possible.
FOSTER WHEELER ENERGIA, SL (FWES) is a Spanish company specialized in the design and supply of steam generators for the industry and electric power plants, with its own manufacture in their Tarragona workshops. FWES is part of the FOSTER WHEELER Global Power Group, a group with more than one hundred years of experience and meeting the energy needs of their clients using the best environmental technology.
Source : Communiqué Endesa
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