Nordic companies are planning to dispose of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the sea
December 16, 2009 – 11:28 am Danish Moller-Maersk has teamed up with the Finnish energy companies Teollisuuden Voima and Fortum for a project to collect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and burying it at the bottom of the sea.
This plan, which depends on the support of the European Union could become the first project of carbon capture and storage of carbon dioxide, in which the CO2 will be transported on board ships, and not transported through pipelines. Carbon dioxide will be collected about working coal-fired thermal power plant in the Meri-Pori, Finland. Then the tanker, owned by Maersk, it will be delivered to the Danish part of the North Sea, where the waste is buried in the field of oil and natural gas. Carbon dioxide is expected to carry pressurized and at a lower temperature, which will keep it in a liquid state. Draft CO2-gas carriers developed on the basis of the experience of transportation of petrochemical products and liquefied natural gas.
It is assumed that the project will “recycle” 1,2 million tons of CO2 per year. Run the project is planned in 2015, Maersk will also consider the possibility of the use of greenhouse gases for the recovery of oil reserves in the development of the deposit or to change the physical and chemical properties of oil.
Technology catching carbon dioxide will be developed by Fortum and Teollisuuden Voima in partnership with Siemens Energy. Thermal power plant, which will become a platform for the project, located on the west coast of Finland. Its capacity is 565 MW. Project offers recycling about 50% of the total flue gas station with a selection of 90% contained therein CO2.
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