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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Aker Carbon Capture and
MAN Energy Solutions have signed a technology-cooperation agreement to develop
energy-efficient compression solutions for carbon capture and storage (CCS)
applications with heat recovery, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The
agreement supports the companies’ joint target to reduce the cost of removing
CO2 emissions from industrial plants around the world. The cooperation builds on
MAN’s experience in compressor technology, the integration of system components
and their design and delivery, as well as Aker Carbon Capture’s proprietary
amine technology and efficient carbon-capture process design.
"We are
very pleased to formalize our good relationship with MAN Energy Solutions in the
form of a technology-cooperation agreement. Through this partnership, we intend
to further improve the process efficiency and thereby lower the cost of carbon
capture to the benefit of our clients and the environment,” said Valborg
Lundegaard, CEO of Aker Carbon Capture.
"Carbon capture and storage will
play a major role in a decarbonized future. This technology contributes both to
reducing emissions in key sectors directly, and to removing CO2 to balance
unavoidable emissions, which is critical with regard to the targets of the Paris
Agreement,” stated Dr Uwe Lauber, CEO of MAN Energy Solutions. “As experienced
forerunners in the CCS field, we will build on our well-founded knowhow and work
together on new, energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly CCS-technology
solutions."
With CCS, captured CO2 is compressed before being liquefied
and transported to a permanent-storage location. The two companies aim to
develop carbon capture solutions that require less energy. The transfer of heat
is key for CO2-capture plants’ improved, overall power-consumption with MAN
Energy Solutions able to recover heat from its compression systems. Hence, the
steam generated will cover nearly 50% of the power demand for Aker Carbon
Capture’s capture plant.
The technology-cooperation agreement will run
for seven years and forms the basis for project deliveries to carbon-capture
plants. Solutions will be applicable for large facilities, such as the
Heidelberg Cement Norcem cement plant in Brevik, Norway where Aker Carbon
Capture will deliver a carbon-capture plant using the company’s patented and
HSE-friendly CCS technology. Subject to parliamentary approval of the funding,
this will represent the first time that CCS will have been deployed at scale at
a cement factory anywhere in the world.
As MRC informed earlier,
MAN Energy Solutions has announced the successful, remote commissioning of a
compressor train at Uzbekistan’s largest chemical company, JSC Navoiyazot. This
world-first was brought about when installation work for a new nitric-acid plant
for fertilizer production was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the MAN
Energy Solutions’ commissioning team forced to leave the site due to the
impending lockdown and associated travel restrictions within the country. In
order to avoid any delays and additional costs for the entire project, MAN and
the EPC contractor Casale S.A. – the global provider of integrated solutions for
the production of fertilizers and chemicals – rapidly put in place an
alternative plan to commission the machinery with remote supervision by MAN
engineers using the company’s digital technology.
Ethylene and propylene
are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene
(PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,594,510 tonnes in the first nine
months of 2020, up by 1% year on year. Only high density polyethylene (HDPE)
shipments increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market
reached 880,130 tonnes in the nine months of 2020 (calculated using the formula:
production minus exports plus imports, excluding producers" inventories as of 1
January, 2020). Supply increased exclusively of PP random copolymer. |
