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Air Products has designed and constructed a large-scale system to capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) from our two steam methane reformers located within the Valero Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The recovered and purified CO₂ is delivered by pipeline to Denbury Onshore for use in their enhanced oil recovery operations.
Described by the Department of Energy as a milestone in its Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage program, this unprecedented achievement, which uses an Air Products innovative technology, is the first-of-its-kind operating at such a large scale, and has not been accomplished anywhere else in the U.S.
Since 2014, our technology for carbon capture and sequestration at our Port Arthur facility has captured over five million metric tons of CO₂ that would have otherwise been emitted into the environment.
We are active in developing solutions to address key technical hurdles in CO₂ capture for power plants. Our solutions range from supply of oxygen for oxyfuel combustion to developing technologies in CO₂ purification and compression. Here are some of Air Products' oxyfuel CO₂ capture projects.
Economic studies for retrofit and new build oxyfuel facilities, with Doosan Power Systems and the DTI Emerging Energy Technologies Programme
Demonstration of oxyfuel sour compression technology at Doosan Power Systems’ facility in Renfrew, Scotland, as part of the Oxycoal-UK Project
Pilot of CO₂ purification system at a boiler simulation facility in Windsor, CT, in cooperation with DOE
Pilot facility for fully integrated CO₂ capture and purification process at Vattenfall’s Schwarze Pumpe oxyfuel pilot plant