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As part of the UK’s Humber Zero initiative, VPI Immingham’s gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant will be home to the world’s largest post-combustion carbon capture facility.
The Humber region is home to many of the UK’s critical industries, including power generation, chemicals manufacturing, and refining. Together, the facilities in the region emit more than 12 million tonnes of CO2 every year. Their decarbonization is pivotal in achieving the UK’s ambition to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
VPI—a power generator and owner of a 1,260-MW combined cycle natural gas power plant (Figure 1) based in Immingham, UK, adjacent to the Humber Oil Refinery—is set to play a key role in decarbonizing the region. It has plans to transform its existing facility into the largest post-combustion carbon capture plant of its type in the world. This carbon capture technology aims to reduce the CO2 intensity of its gas-fired power station by up to 3.3 million tonnes per annum, starting with two of its three gas turbines and its two auxiliary boilers’ exhausts.
This equates to a quarter of the total CO2 produced by facilities in the region every year. Once the project is complete, the equipment will capture more than 95% of the CO2 from the plant’s flue gasses followed by treatment, conditioning, and compression for export into the region’s shared CO2 transport and storage system.
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