Tamar Hallerman
GHG Monitor
10/4/13
Shell subsidiary Cansolv Technologies Inc. and the French engineering, procurement and construction company Technip signed an agreement earlier this week aimed at marketing the Cansolv’s post-combustion capture technology. The partnership is aimed primarily at selling Cansolv’s joint-CO2 and sulfur dioxide capture system to the power sector, according to Devin Shaw, Cansolv’s manager for Strategic CCS Projects. “Technip is a global EPC company with a huge global footprint, with contacts throughout the industrial market,” an advantage Shaw said that the two companies hope to leverage. “As a team we can offer the advanced, turn-key solution that utilities often want. It will be a one-stop shop,” Shaw added.
Casolv’s regenerable capture technology, which the Montreal-based company is offering commercial guarantees on, is being billed as particularly well-suited for power and industrial applications because it is highly adaptable to different CO2 concentrations in flue gas. The technology is currently being deployed at a 3MWe pilot facility at RWE npower’s Aberthaw Power Station in Wales. The capture technology is expected to be scaled-up at SaskPower’s 110 MW Boundary Dam retrofit, currently under construction in Saskatchewan, Canada, as well as a 385 MW natural gas retrofit project in Scotland at Peterhead that’s being developed by Shell and the utility SSE. Cansolv is also participating in a capture and utilization pilot project with the chemical company Lanxess CISA in South Africa.
