| Power from biomass and waste


B&W and NRG Korea look at using BrightLoopTM


Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has signed an agreement with NRG Korea to study the applicability of B&W’s BrightLoopTM


to a hydrogen generation facility


using biomass fuel in South Korea. B&W’s BrightLoop chemical looping technology is part of its ClimateBrightTM


technologies. The BrightLoop process uses a proprietary, regenerable particle and has been demonstrated to effectively separate CO2 producing H2


and H2 while , steam and/or syngas. It is considered ready for commercial scale-up. suite of decarbonisation


The B&W/NRG MoU envisages developing a project that would employ waste biomass as feedstock to produce hydrogen for fuel cells used for power generation.


for capture or use, and produce steam or syngas. BrightLoop is a flexible solution with a wide array of potential applications.”


“B&W’s BrightLoop technology is a cutting-edge solution for hydrogen generation from virtually any fuel stock,” said Joe Buckler, B&W senior vice president, clean energy and it “can be used to isolate CO2


Visualisation of B&W BrightLoopTM chemical looping facility


for biomass-to-hydrogen


LSEP awards Developing a CO2


Following the insolvency of CNIM, Black & Veatch has been appointed EPCM contractor for the 60 MW Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant (LSEP) in the UK, near Manchester, on the site of a former coal plant. The EfW project is a joint venture of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and FCC Environment. Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has also been appointed, to “support delivery of the power train” for LSEP. B&W has been awarded a $65 million contract to provide “engineering services and advanced technologies”, with a scope that includes GMAB flue gas treatment systems, SPIG air-cooled condensers, Diamond Power boiler cleaning equipment, and engineering (in both B&W’s Denmark and US offices).


TES and the VBSA (association of Swiss waste- to-energy plant operators) have formed a partnership to look at decarbonising 29 WtE plants in Switzerland, which emit around 4 million tons of CO2


per year.


The idea is to make use of a 1000 km long CO2 transport network that TES is working on with


OGE, connecting to the TES Green Energy Hub in Wilhelmshaven, Germany and to CO2


sites or facilities where the CO2 combined with green H2


can be utilised, eg to create eNG. Strategic


Swiss locations (eg, Basel) can be connected to this infrastructure “via train or pipelines”, says TES.


sequestration


plan for Swiss WtE plants


The scope of the partnership will be to establish how much CO2


strategy for the 29 waste-to-energy plants that will pave the way for the Swiss industry


to be connected to a larger European CO2 infrastructure,” said Rafael Löhrer, business development Switzerland, TES.


transport should be removed


from Switzerland and over what period, so that these quantities can be taken into account when dimensioning the transport network. “The co-operation between TES and VBSA will accelerate the decarbonisation of Switzerland by defining a clear CO2


transport


Aker Carbon Capture selected by Viridor for Runcorn CCS pre-FEED


Aker Carbon Capture is to support Viridor in the provision of a pre-FEED study for the Runcorn CCS project in the UK.


The pre-FEED study will explore the installation of a carbon capture plant within the HyNet cluster, part of the UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Track 1 sequencing process, capturing around 1 million t/y CO2


.


Viridor has a publicly committed to a plan to become the first net zero waste company by 2040 by


implementing CCUS and the extraction of plastic from residual waste streams for more circular recycling. Kevin Bradshaw, CEO at Viridor, commented: “Our vision for Viridor is to be the UK’s leading innovator in resource recovery and recycling to deliver a climate positive future. This collaboration with Aker Carbon Capture to bring our combined focus on the delivery of CCUS at Runcorn targets a significant milestone in realising that vision.”


This collaboration builds on a memorandum of understanding already signed by Viridor and Aker Carbon Capture. In this MOU, both parties announced plans to help the UK accelerate its decarbonisation agenda through a partnership for next-generation CCS.


Visualisation of Runcorn CCS facility (source Viridor)


Energy from waste with CCS could play a leading role in the UK’s decarbonisation efforts. If all EfW facilities in the UK were fitted with CCS, approximately five million tonnes of negative emissions could be stored each year. At the Runcorn facility, around half of the waste originates from biogenic sources, enabling half a million tonnes of negative emissions, effectively removing these from the atmosphere.


At Runcorn, “Viridor will benefit from modularity in the Aker Carbon Capture Big Catch portfolio, reducing complexity and cost”, said Valborg Lundegaard, CEO of Aker Carbon Capture. Big Catch is Aker’s higher capacity (400 000 tCO2


/y


and above) carbon capture offering. A Big Catch capture plant is currently being constructed by Aker Carbon Capture as part of the Brevik CCS project in Norway (said to be the world’s first large scale CO2


capture facility at a cement plant).


In May 2022, Aker Carbon Capture officially started building work on a 100 000 tCO2


carbon capture plant at Twence’s waste-to-energy plant in Hengelo, the Netherlands. Aker Carbon Capture’s Just Catch technology is designed for smaller capacity capture plants.


The Twence CCU plant, which has a 14.3 million euro subsidy from the Dutch government, is due to enter operation by the end of 2023. It will reduce CO2


emissions from incineration of


non-recyclable waste for power generation, with the captured CO2


to be used in liquid form in


greenhouses (which currently obtain their CO2 mainly via the combustion of natural gas).


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