Energy 2050 collaborates on new project to develop case for a gas power plant with carbon capture and storage

17th October 2016

Experts from the University of Sheffield's Energy 2050 institute are working on a new project to develop designs for a new generation of gas power station fitted with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies.

The £650,000 project, commissioned by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), supports industry partners SNC Lavalin who designed the world's first power CCS project in Canada and AECOM, the global engineering consultancy. Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian, Head of Energy 2050, said: -I am delighted we are able to contribute our engineering expertise on power stations and CCS to this exciting project. The project will develop an outline scheme and a 'template' power plant design (Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) with post combustion capture), identify potential sites in key UK industrial hubs and build a credible cost base for such a scheme, benchmarked as far as possible against actual project data and as-built plant. Professor Jon Gibbins, Professor of Power Plant Design and Director of the UK CCS Research Centre, said: -Gas power plants equipped with CCS are an essential part of the UK's future energy mix, and projects such as this are needed to inform the government's thinking on their new CCS strategy, which we expect to be announced later this year. The University of Sheffield's Energy 2050 institute is an expert hub of the UK's CCS research. A founding member of the UK CCS Research Centre, the university operates the national CCS testing facilities (known as PACT), and is the lead UK institution in the International CCS Test Centre Network.