Power Generation
Total inaugurates end-to-end carbon capture and storage pilot in France
French oil company Total yesterday inaugurated an end-to-end carbon capture, transportation and storage demonstration project in southwestern France.
The €60 million Lacq facility uses Air Liquide’s oxycombustion carbon capture technology, which substitutes pure oxygen for air in an industrial boiler to produce less flue gas that is 90% CO2.
The carbon is then piped from the Lacq site to the Rousse geological storage site 27 km away, where it is injected into a depleted natural gas reservoir 4.5 km underground.
Total expects the process will capture 120,000 metric tons of CO2 over the next two years – equivalent to that emitted by 40,000 cars – and will monitor the storage site for a further three years.
For further information:
www.total.com/en/home-page-940596.html
www.airliquide.com/
Related stories:
ScottishPower claims breakthrough in carbon capture (1-Dec 2009)
EU identifies carbon capture projects to share €1.05 billion (9-Oct 2009)
E.ON and Siemens launch carbon capture pilot project in Germany (21-Sept 2009)
Large-scale OxyCoal CCS project now underway (28-Jul 2009)