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| Ramboll to analyse emissions at Carbon Capture and Storage plant  One of the world's largest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plants is being built in Mongstad, Norway. Ramboll and Norwegian Gassnova SF have made an agreement to work on the analysis and sampling of emissions at the plant.The assignment consists of five sub-tasks concerning the development of the online and manual sampling and analysis of emissions and process compounds of the CCS-plant based on amine technology. The process compounds used at the plant have to be investigated for environmental and health effects and the work done by Ramboll will produce basic information about the amount and quality of emissions and will help further the development process towards cleaner production. Power plant exhaust gases from using fossil or biofuel usually consist of 5 - 15% CO2. With CCS technology, up to 90% of CO2 emissions can be captured and thus prevent emission of CO2 into the atmosphere. It is planned to pump the collected CO2 to e.g. former oil wells. Present CCS-plants work on a smaller, pilot scale, whereas the project executed at Mongstad aims at building a full scale power plant with CCS. The project is significant internationally. According to the established scenarios, fossil fuels will remain important for energy production during next 50 to 100 years. The International Energy Association has estimated that 22% of the world's energy need is to be produced with coal and 35% with oil even in 2030. Currently, there are numerous CO2 capture plants under design. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |