This unit will be part of CIUDEN’s integrated carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology development Plant (TDP) located near Endesa’s Compostilla power plant in Ponferrada, Spain. The unit is expected to be operational by the second half of 2011 with testing programs expected to follow shortly thereafter.
Foster Wheeler will design and supply the 30MWth Flexi-Burn CFB test unit and some auxiliary equipment and provide site advisory services for the project.
The CIUDEN unit will be designed to test burn a range of domestic (anthracite) and imported coals, as well as biomass. One of the objectives of the incorporation of this unit into the TDP is to validate Foster Wheeler’s Flexi-Burn CFB technology at the required scale before proceeding to a possible full-scale demonstration plant.
Flexi-Burn is Foster Wheeler’s version of carbon capture technology based on oxygen combustion for coal plants. Unlike pre-combustion (IGCC plant) or post-combustion technologies (amine CO2 scrubber placed behind conventional coal boilers), oxygen combustion technologies allow the boiler to produce a CO2 rich flue gas, thus reducing the need for expensive and energy-intensive CO2 gas separation equipment, the company said.
