MHIENG bags pre-FEED contract for carbon capture plant in UK

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) will deliver the preliminary front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for a CO₂ capture plant at Hanson UK’s Padeswood cement works in Flintshire, Wales, its parent company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said on December 14.

Once operational, the plant will capture 800,000 metric tons/year of CO₂ and the plan is to store it in spent gas fields off the coast of northwest England.

MHIENG will support the project by carrying out the pre-FEED of a CO₂ capture plant applying its ‘Advanced KM CDR Process’ CO₂ capture technology jointly developed with Kansai Electric Power Co., MHI said.

Operational commencement of the CO₂ capture plant at the Padeswood Works is targeted for 2027.

The UK government has set targets for achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. To achieve this goal, it has been building the necessary infrastructure, including CCUS clusters that encompass all aspects of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) for implementation at designated industrial zones.

In October 2021 HyNet and East Coast Clusters were selected as the Track 1 CCUS clusters by the department for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS). This project was subsequently shortlisted in August 2022 for potential funding.