SaskPower said Thursday its Boundary Dam Unit 3 carbon capture and storage project in Saskatchewan, Canada, operated throughout the month of October. “In October, the process operated very reliably once again, capturing 82,355 tonnes of carbon dioxide during 100% of the hours in the month. This brings the total capture for 2016 to 686,700 tonnes, on track to capture 800,000 in 2016,” the utility said in a press release.
Earlier this week, SaskPower announced that it had officially reached its goal of capturing 800,000 metric tons of CO2 in the 12-month period from October 2015 to last month.
In 2014, the plant captured 113,600 metric tons of carbon dioxide from October, when it was brought online, to the end of the year. In 2015, the facility captured 426,100 metric tons of CO2. To date, the plant in total has captured roughly 1.23 million metric tons of CO2 since becoming operational.
Under an off-take agreement, SaskPower is to provide 800,000 metric tons of CO2 annually to Canadian oil company Cenovus, which uses the material for enhanced oil recovery. CO2 in excess of that 800,000 metric tons will be sent to the Aquistore geologic storage project.
SaskPower will take the plant offline for a week in November for “routine inspection and cleaning,” the release says.
