Suez recycling and recovery UK have worked with Preliminary Front End Engineering and Design (Pre-FEED) contractors for two of its carbon capture projects in the East Coast Cluster.
The moves come in preparation for an application for funding through the Industrial Carbon Capture Track-1 Expansion project from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
Funding is already in place for the main East Coast Cluster pipeline for Teesside, which will transport carbon captured from a range of projects across Teesside to an aquifer 145km off the coast beneath the North Sea.
The East Coast Cluster project will play a key role in helping the UK to achieve Net Zero, with the Government’s Climate Change Committee describing the process of Carbon Capture as “a necessity rather than an option to achieve Net Zero by 2050”.
Suez is focusing on reducing the carbon footprint of customers’ waste and investing in ways to reduce the carbon content of waste coming into its energy recovery facilities, such as our work on recycling flexible plastics at scale, through to capturing the carbon from flue gas emissions at the end of the process.
“We have a clear strategy for the design and construction of carbon capture and are demonstrating that through speculative investment in the technology with the appointment of contractors ahead of the next round of government funding,” according to a statement.
Fluor is supporting the Pre-FEED for its existing energy-from-waste facility at the Haverton Hill Industrial Estate on Teesside, while Technip Energies have partnered on the Pre-FEED for the energy-from-waste facility operated by Suez at Wilton.
Both plants sit within the East Coast Cluster and would plug directly into the pipeline which received consent earlier this year.
Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director for SUEZ recycling and recovery UK said, “Carbon Capture is vital to decarbonisation and we have the expertise to make this a reality. We are confident in our strategy and are ideally placed to showcase what this technology can do.”
“Our technology partners, Fluor and Technip Energies, were chosen based on their experience, capture rate and design costs. We’re hopeful that government will back these projects to maximise the potential that can be captured across Teesside and Humber.”
The successful implementation of these projects will pave the way for a large scale roll out of the carbon capture solution across our energy-from-waste plant portfolio, with plans already being developed in other parts of the UK.
Technip Energies is also using its expertise at the energy-from-waste facility in Severnside, Bristol (part of the 7CO2 cluster, click here to read more).
Jason Kraynek, President of Fluor’s Production and Fuels business, said, “Our Econamine FG PlusSM carbon capture technology is perfectly suited to assist SUEZ in creating a more sustainable future.”
Christophe Malaurie, SVP Decarbonisation Solutions in Technip Energies, said its partnership with SUEZ for two carbon capture demonstrates its joint commitment to decarbonising hard-to-abate industries and building a sustainable future.
“By leveraging Technip Energies’ Canopy C200 modularised solution powered by the proven Shell CANSOLV® CO2 Capture system, we are taking a step forward to achieve our Net Zero goal while ensuring cost and delivery certainty,” he said.
Last month The Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) launched a public consultation on the Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline (HCCP), a proposed onshore infrastructure project that would transport carbon dioxide, captured from carbon capture projects in the Humber region, to secure offshore storage under the North Sea.
