Mitsubishi Heavy to support Eni's CCUS project in Italy
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG), a unit of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), has agreed to license its carbon capture technology to Italy’s first carbon dioxide capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project being developed by Eni, MHI said on April 25. MHIENG will also provide process design package.
The first phase of the project targets the capture of approximately 25,000 metric tons/year of CO2 from the turbo compressor exhaust operating at Eni’s natural gas plant located in Casalborsetti in northeast Italy.
MHIENG’s role in the project will be to provide licensing for its carbon capture technology, which has been jointly developed with Kansai Electric Power Co. The technology helps capture the CO2 contained in flue gas by a process of chemical absorption using MHIENG’s proprietary KS-1 solvent.
MHI said that this system has already been deployed at 13 commercial facilities around the world. MHIENG will provide its carbon capture technology through NextChem, green chemistry-dedicated subsidiary of Marie Tecnimont Group, an Italian engineering company.