Drax plant to use Mitsubishi’s carbon capture technology in pursuit of negative emissions

Drax has taken another step in its ambition to deploy bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Beccs) by licensing technology from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Last year it began testing two amine-based solvents developed by the Japanese company and has chosen one of these for what would be the UK’s largest negative emissions project, at its biomass plant in north Yorkshire. MHI’s post-combustion capture technology is in use at 13 commercial plants around the world. Many of these use the captured carbon dioxide for urea production and handle a variety of flue gases.