Exciting and busy times for TCM

This said TCM’s Managing Director, Muhammad Ismail Shah, at the CLIMIT Summit conference in Larvik on Tuesday 7 February. The CLIMIT Programme is Norway’s national programme for research, development and demonstration of CO2 capture and storage technology (CCS). The programme is directed towards companies, research institutes and academia. 250 participants took part at the CLIMIT Summit where TCM’s Managing Director was invited to tell about the company’s different activities in the field of carbon capture. 

22 test campaigns over the years

Since the start in 2012, TCM has performed 18 test campaigns at the three test sites, and a further four are to be carried out this year. This week Shell Catalysts & Technologies has started its third campaign at the amine plant. The company offers two leading carbon capture technologies; The CANSOLV CO₂ Capture System and ADIP ULTRA. The test at TCM will involve a proprietary amine-based solvent that is part of the CANSOLV CO₂ technology. It is expected that this will be then qualified for delivery to carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects around the world. Technology from Shell has been choosen by Hafslund Oslo Celsio for their capture project at Klemetsrud in Oslo, which is part of the Norwegian Longship project.

Three more campaigns to come

At the CLIMIT Summit Muhammad Ismail Shah said that three other technologies are planned to be tested at TCM this year, respectively two projects financed by the EU and one developed by American InnoSepra.

– The level of activity is very high, and we also receive more and more inquires from companies asking for assistance in their planning of full-scale carbon capture projects, Shah said.

Helping to become smart buyer of technology

TCM’s Advisory Services, which started in 2019, is providing assistance to project owners and technology developers based on TCM’s non-proprietary know-how and learnings.

­– The objective here is to support in successful deployment of CCS technology. The role of TCM is to enable the customer to ask the right and smart questions and make them able to select a suitable technology. However, TCM does not select technology for them, he emphasized.

Advice on technical issues

Some of these questions could be, to help the customer understand its flue gas characteristics to the ppm and sub ppm level, and mitigate any adverse effects of it on the solvent, operation, corrosion, degradation and its compliance with a emission permit and general HSE.

– Another example could be helping the customer in identifying the right and representative KPIs and helping in setting up a performance test. It could also be providing guidelines and recommendations for establishing emission permit and sharing TCM experience in identification, quantification, and operation of measurement instruments. We have over the years developed both online and extractive sampling and analysis methods and instruments with leading R&D, such as the University of Oslo and SINTEF, to demonstrate this, Shah said at the CLIMIT Summit.