Company/Alliance: Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Doosan Babcock, Siemens, UK Coal, Vattenfall
Location: Ferrybridge Station, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 5 MW pilot:100 tons per day; 500 MW retrofit with super critical boiler and turbine: 1.7 MT/Yr CO2
Capture Technology: Post-combustion capture and PC (super critical retrofit)
CO2 Fate: Sequestration in the North Sea
Timing: High-level engineering feasibility studies (completed), front-end engineering design (2007), investment decision (2007), Scheduled: Construction of the pilot plant construction and Demo project start (2011: not met to date ); 500 MW project start (2015)

Comments: Vattenfall is involved in a 5 MW pilot plant in Ferrybridge, also called the CCPilot100+ project. 100 tons of CO2 per day are currently being captured from a flue gas slipstream corresponding to approximately 5 MW of electric power. The stream is extracted after the newly commissioned flue gas desulphurisation unit at Ferrybridge power station. The retrofit, with the super critical boiler and turbine, will capture, through an efficiency increase from 36% to 45%, 0.5 MT/Yr CO2.
In 2003, the Ferrybridge Station was listed as the second highest polluter in the UK.

Project Link: Ferrybridge CCS project website

The Ferrybridge power stations refers to a series of three coal-fired power stations situated on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. The first station on the site, Ferrybridge A power station, was constructed in the mid-1920s, and was closed as the second station, Ferrybridge B power station, was brought into operation in the 1950s. The A station has been retained since it closed. In the 1960s, Ferrybridge C power station was opened with a generating capacity of 2000 megawatts, which at the time was the largest of any power station in the UK. The B and C stations operated together until the B station's closure in the 1990s. The B station has since been demolished.

Ferrybridge C power station is currently the only power station operating on the site. Since 2004 it has been operated by Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is capable of co-firing biomass and is currently being fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) plant. There are plans to build a fourth, D station on the site.

Ferrybridge C has now had an operating life of over 40 years. Since 2003, the station has established itself as a market leader in the effective co-firing of biomass. In the 2002-2003 tax year, the station was responsible for 80% of all co-fired renewable energy in the UK, resulting in a 3.5% net reduction of the plant's greenhouse gas emissions

We're currently constructing a trial carbon capture facility at Ferrybridge Power Station, in collaboration with Doosan Power Systems and Vattenfall.

We were granted planning permission to trial carbon dioxide capture technology at Ferrybridge Power Station, working in collaboration with Doosan Power Systems and Vattenfall. A total of £21 million is being invested in the plant, including £6.3 million from DECC, the Technology Strategy Board and Northern Way. Construction work is under way, with the trial itself expected to commence in 2011 and be complete by the end of 2012.

Vattenfall participates in a CCS project (CCPilot100+) with post-combustion technology at Ferrybridge Power Station in Yorkshire, UK. The main project partners are SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy), the owner and operator of the power plant, and Doosan Babcock, the carbon capture technology supplier. UK governmental support is offered through the Technology Strategy Board and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Vattenfall has qualified for European funding to build and operate a large-scale demonstration plant based on postcombustion technology at Jänschwalde, Germany. The results from the project at Ferrybridge – about 10 times smaller in scale – will give Vattenfall knowledge of vital importance prior to the Jänschwalde-project, which is planned to be in operation in 2015.

The Vattenfall team contributes actively to the planning and realisation of the project. Our previous R&D experience from various internal and collaborative projects in recent years is brought into the design discussions and staff will be onsite when the two-year period of operation and testing starts in the beginning of 2011.