The ETI is working with Costain to deliver the project which will see a carbon capture pilot plant capable of capturing up to 95% of carbon dioxide emissions designed, built, operated and tested by the middle of 2015.
The ETI investment means it has now announced more than £100m of projects in offshore wind, marine, distributed energy, buildings, energy storage and distribution, transport and bio energy as well as CCS since it was formed in 2008.
The project will be aimed at pre-combustion carbon capture applications, involving CO2 removal by physical separation and will be split into two parts.
The first lasting 16 months and costing £3.5m will provide the front end engineering design for the demonstration unit. Costain will work with the University of Edinburgh, and Imperial College, London on the first stage, to help understand and optimise performance of the technology.
The ETI expects to invest £20m in the second stage, as the pilot plant is built, demonstrated and the results analysed. Demonstration is a key element to building user group confidence in the capture element.
A potential site has been identified for the pilot plant, and will be reviewed and ranked against other options and then confirmed during the first stage of the project.
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