Aker Clean

Carbon

Aker Clean Carbon is a global

supplier of cost-effective CO2
capture plants and technology.

The Norwegian company offers amine-based capture

solutions for coal and gas power, the cement industry
and other industrial flue gases. Amine-based
processes for CO2 capture is well established in the
process industry.

Aker Clean Carbon is owned 70 per cent by Aker and

30 per cent by Aker Solutions. The Oslo-based
company has so far invested more than NOK100
million in developing its own capture technology, and
has engaged about 160 engineers.

Aker Clean Carbon is developing technology to

apply these processes to coal, gas and bio-driven
power plants and other industrial gases.

Aker is a Norwegian industrial holding company with

more than 35 000 employees and operations in 35
countries within the power and energy, maritime,
seafood and marine biotech industries. The company
controls a handful of Aker companies, including Aker
Solutions, a leading global supplier of technology and
services to the process and energy industries.

Aker Clean Carbon was established by Aker and Aker

Solutions in 2007 as a vehicle to accelerate and
commercialise Akers efforts to develop CCS
management. The companys origins lie in Aker
Solutions, where engineers worked on carbon capture
technology since the early 1990s. Aker Solutions is
increasing its ownership stake in Aker Clean Carbon
from 30 per cent to 50 per cent.

www.akercleancarbon.com

Mongstad
Aker Clean Carbon is together with Aker Solutions building
European Technology Centre Mongstad in Norway, one of
the most advanced carbon capture test facilities in the world
to date. The company won the contract in early 2009. The
project at Mongstad is
managed by the Norwegian government and StatoilHydro,
the energy company.
Mobile Test Unit

Technology:
Aker Clean Carbon has developed its own
technology for carbon capture. The basis of the
process is the chemical reaction between a liquid
absorbent, normally an amine, and CO2.
In the capture plant, the exhaust containing CO2 is routed via
inlet coolers to a large absorption tower. The gas enters at the
bottom of the absorber and gets in contacts with the (liquid)
amine, which flows
downwards. The amine will absorb most of the CO2 by a
chemical reaction. The remaining flue gas is treated in the
water wash unit, to ensure removal of all amines before disposal to air from the top of the absorber.
The amine containing CO2 is pumped via heat exchangers to
the stripper part where CO2 is stripped off (or boiled off) by
heat from the re-boiler. After the stripping process the amine
is pumped back to the absorber via an energy converter, and
the cycle is repeated.
Major projects and competitions:
Aker Clean Carbon is involved in one of the consortia bidding
for the contract to build a capture facility in the UK. The company is part of a consortium led by
Scottish Power, which has entered an agreement to use as its
technology provider.
The UK energy company has been pre-qualified in the competition to build the first large scale CO2 capture facility for a
coal-fired power plant in the UK.

Aker Clean Carbon has built a mobile test capture

facility, which is ready in the autumn of 2008. The prime
objective for the Mobile Test Unit is to provide operational
data from reliable field tests. The facility is designed for easy
transport and hook-up.
The plant will capture CO2 from different industrial flue gases
and is equipped with advanced monitoring systems. The facility will verify new design features and solvents, and operate
in an industrial environment
during long-term testing.
The first destination for the capture facility was the gas
research centre in Risavika outside Stavanger in Norway. The
facility will be moved to a coal-fired power plant for testing in
2009.
SOLVit
Aker Clean Carbon is leading SOLVit a major
scientific research and development programme to produce
improved, cost-effective amines for the CO2 capture process.
The programme was launched
together with Sintef, an independent research
Porganisation, and the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology NTNU. The programme, which has a financial
value of NOK 317 million, was launched in Norway in August
2008 and runs for eight years.