Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded a study from an un-named European developer to assess the feasibility of integrating carbon capture at multiple biomass and waste-to-energy facilities. The four initial plants will be based on Aker’s modular Just Catch, to enables synergies across the projects, faster realisation and reduced overall risk.
“We believe that our configurable Just Catch, which facilitates serial-produced carbon capture units, will provide cost and delivery benefits” said Jon Christopher Knudsen, chief commercial officer at Aker Carbon Capture.
The European Commission recently presented a 90% net GHG emissions reduction proposal compared to 1990 levels as the recommended target for 2040. To deliver that reduction target, the EU’s GHG emissions in 2040 should be less than 850 MtCO2-equivalent, and carbon removals should reach up to 400 MtCO2, a large part of which will have to be BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage).
Aker is currently delivering seven carbon capture plants. In the Netherlands, it is in the final stages of delivering a Just Catch 100 at the Twence waste-to-energy facility. For Heidelberg Materials' cement plant in Brevik Norway, it is delivering a carbon capture plant with a capacity of 400 000 tonnes per year. The company is also delivering five Just Catch 100 units to Ørsted’s bioenergy facilities in Denmark, with a total design capture capacity of 500 000 tonnes of CO2 a year.
