KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 -- With focus on the impact of oil prices on the Petra Nova decision to suspend carbon capture and storage (CCS) operations, Corwyn Bruce wants to bring to the forefront a focus on its operational success.
Bruce is the Vice-President, Project Development and Advisory Services for the International CCS Knowledge Centre, with hands-on expertise in working on the BD3 CCS facility.
According to a statement, quiet assessments found through sound technical reviews can often lack the acknowledgement deserved in innovation, retooling and optimisation.
This is the case with the CCS facility at Petra Nova (a joint initiative by NRG & JX Nippon).
Petra Nova logs-in with a 92.4 per cent capture efficiency (Petra Nova’s final technical report submitted to the US Department of Energy) which not only surpasses its 90 per cent target, but points to the plant’s long-term reliability for the capture process.
The CCS facility operates well and has overcome many of the risk items that have proven to be a challenge in other installations.
Bruce had the opportunity to offer a unique perspective having been part of the engineering team that designed and built the carbon capture system at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam 3 CCS Facility (BD3) – whereby integrating it with a coal-fired power plant, it became the world’s first of this nature.
He also has the privilege of not only continuing to advise on the optimisation of that plant, but to lead a team at the International CCS Knowledge Centre in sharing lessons learned worldwide to support the deployment of next generation CCS facilities and help meet global climate targets.
-- BERNAMA
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