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By John Armstrong, Engineering Manager, Enfield Power Station, E.ON UK Generation

On November 12th a number of varied and knowledgeable speakers presented on issues surrounding carbon capture and storage. The presentations took attendees through from the generating of power with both pre-and post combustion capture, to the final sequestration under the sea bed in depleted gas fields.

Over the next 20 years UK generation capacity will reduce by in excess of 30GW, and what plant replaces this will determine how much carbon dioxide will be produced by the unit kingdom for decades to come.

The day started with a key note speech from Jeff Chapman from the CCSA, and was then followed by presentations on key technologies for capturing carbon from combustion plant, include post combustion capture, pre-combustion capture and oxy-fuel technology. Dr Mike Farley from Doosan Babcock, Mr Nick Otter from Alstom Power Systems, Terry Raddings from GE and Mr Michael Rolls from Siemens all presented the OEM view of these technologies.

The afternoon session began with an interesting insight into the national and international legal aspects of carbon sequestration, by Ms Giedre Kaminskaite-Salters from Norton Rose LLP, raising attendees’ awareness of some of the challenges to come.

Power station operators from RWE, E.ON presented their views on the technology before Mr Stephen Connolly from the HSE discussed some of the safety aspects which come from handling Carbon Dioxide.

To finish off the technology around carbon sequestration was presented by Dr Sam Holloway, from the British Geological Survey and Dr Anthony Boer from Schlumberger Carbon Services.

The event was well attended and covered a fantastic breadth of information, at times sparking some lively debate.

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