Project is intended to bridge the gap between lab-scale trials currently underway and the larger-scale projects envisaged by the government, by demonstrating the operational characteristics of a capture plant at a full-scale power station.

London - Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) is seeking consent to develop the UK’s largest carbon-dioxide-capture trial facility at its Ferrybridge coal-fired power station near Castleford in Yorkshire. The £21-million project aims to demonstrate the carbon-dioxide-capture element of carbon-capture and storage (CCS) technology.

According to SSE, trials will be jointly undertaken in 2011-2012 with a consortium of partners, including Renfrew-based steam-generator suppliers, Doosan Babcock, at a facility that will produce 100 tonnes of carbon dioxide per day - equivalent to 5MW of coal-fired power-generating capacity. The project is intended to bridge the gap between lab-scale trials currently underway and the larger-scale projects envisaged by the government, by demonstrating the operational characteristics of a capture plant at a full-scale power station.

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