RECS Day 5 - Plant Barry CCS Tour
Pamela Tomski, RECS Founder & Director and Michael Ivie, Southern Company
June 10th - Just six days before the RECS visit, Southern Company put its 25 MW CO2 capture demonstration unit into operation at Alabama Power’s Plant Barry near Mobile, AL. The facility utilizes the KM CDR Process technology, jointly developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kansai Electric Power. Approximately 150,000 tons of CO2 will be captured annually over four years, transported 12 miles via pipeline and injected 9,500 feet below the Citronelle oil field operated by Denbury Resources. The storage component of the project is part of the U.S. DOE’s SECARB regional carbon sequestration partnership. Once fully operational later this summer, Plant Barry will be the world’s largest integrated coal-fired power project with CCS. Southern Company engineer Michael Ivie and his team took the RECS group on a tour of both the CO2 capture facility and Plant Barry. The 25 MW demo is a key step towards commercialization and the opportunity to visit was a real highlight of the RECS program.
Plant Barry CO2 capture demo unit barged to the site. Capture and compressor operations started on June 4th (Photos courtesy of Southern Company)
