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Claye-Souilly CCS programme

Brief description:

Claye-Souilly CCS programme: Read more; Capture Method:
Post-combustion
Capture Technology:

Capital cost:
Financial support:
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--> Volume:
200,000 tonnes; 48.9449893 2.6841677

Facts:

Main developer: ADEME Veolia

Country: France

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Small

Status: Identified

Year of operation 2009

Industry: Biofuel

MW capacity: 23MW

Capture method: Post-combustion

Transport of CO2 by: none

Type of storage: Aquifers

Volume: 200,000 tonnes/CO2

Veolia landfill site Credit: Veolia

In 2005, environmental services company Veolia began a research programme on carbon capture and storage, to explore capture techniques for its clients’ medium-scale facilities, such as thermal power stations, municipal waste incinerators and landfill gas burning sites.

The company selected a site at Claye Souilly, near Paris, for an industrial-scale pilot unit to capture and store CO2 at an annual rate of 200,000 metric tonnes. The programme, expected to be the biggest of its kind in France, would capture CO2 from a landfill biogas-to-energy facility at the site and store it within a saline aquifer at a depth of more than 1,500 metres.

The selection of the Claye Souilly site in 2008 kickstarted geological studies at Claye Souilly in partnership with Geogreen, an international joint venture between IFP, BRGM and Geostock.

In December 2009, Veolia announced start-up of its landfill gas-to-biomethane fuel facility at Claye Souilly, where the demonstration unit began testing two technologies for separating CO2 from the biogas - the VPSA process, which adsorbs components on porous solids, and a membrane process. The technology ultimately chosen will be used at other non-hazardous waste landfill sites.

No details on whether transport and storage of CO2 has begun are available. However, information on the Claye Souilly pilot from the IFP in November 2009 gave a projected start-up date of 2010 for the integrated project.

Finance

Veolia has invested €1.6 million in the Claye Souilly landfill gas-to-energy pilot, for which it received a subsidy of €300,000 from ADEME, France's environment and energy management agency.