Saskpower Launches Carbon Capture Test Facility

The Regina Leader-Post reported that SaskPower has opened a new $70 million carbon capture test facility at its carbon capture plant.

As quoted in the publication:

MHPS will be the facility’s first customer, as it will use the CCTF to test its own amine solvents, which are used in the carbon capture process. MHPS will have the exclusive use of the CCTF for 14 months.

Yasuo Fujitani, senior executive vice-president of MHPS, said the joint venture was pleased to be the first client of the CCTF. “We will be using our time in the CCTF to test our new amine solution,” Fujitani told the assembled guests, including delegates at the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum being held in Regina this week. Amine solvents are chemicals used to remove carbon dioxide from the flue gas or emissions stream of a thermal generating station.

Mike Marsh, president of CEO of SaskPower, said the CCTF is simply the latest example of SaskPower’s long-term commitment to CCS technology. In October, the Crown corporation officially commissioned its $1.47-billion integrated CCS project at Boundary Dam Power Station’s Unit 3, which is the world’s first commercial-scale, demonstration of post-combustion CCS technology on a coal-fired generating station. SaskPower is also partnering with the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in its $40-million Aquistore project, which was officially launched in late May. Aquistore, which injects compressed up to 3,000 tonnes of CO2 from the Boundary Dam CCS facility into a 3.5 km deep well, is demonstrating how CO2 can be safely stored in deep geological formations.

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