Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America Associates with Southern Company for Carbon Capture Demo at Yates

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America Inc (MHIA) declared that the company has intentions to start a pilot venture of capturing Carbon dioxide in association with Southern Company at its Georgia Power Plant Yates sited near Newnan Ga.

Southern Company which owns both the Alabama Power and Georgia Power is working in association with MHIA on the Yates project for nearly a month now. The association on the project is anticipated to continue till the middle of November this year.

The trial venture will utilize the portable model of KM-CDR CO2 capture procedure formulated by Japan based Kansai Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). During the proposed ‘catch and release’ pilot program a small quantity of carbon dioxide will be captivated by utilizing the patented KS-1 solution of MHI and delivered to the flue gas load of the plant. The pilot program is designed to supply supplementary procedural details and more inputs required for a major level of 500 Tons Per Day (TPD) demo planned at Plant Barry owned by Alabama Power. The company has envisaged plans to compress the 500 TPD of carbon dioxide required for the demo process at Plant Barry and send it to the underground storage plants by pipelines. The proposed test at Barry intends to make a start-to-finish demo of a coal burned powerhouse carbon capture and warehousing structure.

Yoshio Nakayama, MHIA Environmental Systems Division’s, VP and General Manager, called the program as his company’s important initiative to introduce a cheaper and competent procedure to lessen carbon dioxide releases. He added that the research is aimed at utilizing the know-how for commercial usage.