The pilot plant is set to be operational for the next 16 months to support the commissioning of the full-scale carbon capture plant which the company is planning to build at its Protos ERF in Cheshire.
The pilot plant, installed and commissioned by Kanadevia Inova, is expected to capture around one tonne of carbon per day. Additionally, it is to sample around 0.1% of flue gases from Rookery South ERF and produce data on process performance before releasing the carbon dioxide back into the facility’s core system.
Carbon capture enables carbon dioxide to be separated from other flue gases. As part of the government-backed HyNet North West decarbonisation cluster, the carbon dioxide from Protos ERF will be transferred to Liverpool Bay via new pipelines for permanent storage under the seabed, Encyclis said.
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The Protos facility was selected as one of the commissioning projects in the industrial decarbonisation programme by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) (see letsrecycle.com story).
The Protos ERF is currently under construction near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. It is due to start commissioning at the end of this year, with operations commencing in the months after that, a spokesperson for Encyclis told letsrecycle.com.
Once operational, the facility is set to process up to 500,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste. The project is expected to prevent around 370,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year from being released into the atmosphere from the treatment of this waste.
Owen Michaelson, CEO of Encyclis, commented: “Our driving ambition is to deliver on the promise of carbon capture with full, commercial-scale deployment, and the activation of the pilot plant is a significant step towards that. It is a tribute to the expertise of our engineers, and our design, construction and operating partners at Kanadevia Inova, that we have reached this milestone.
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