CO2 capture and cleaning installation (Rotterdam)

Client: OCAP

Features: Design and realisation of industrial-scale 'carbon capture and usage' (CCU) plant in Europoort Rotterdam. The total plant has a processing capacity of 700 ktonnes of CO2/year. The CO2 is a useful product in greenhouse horticulture, where it ensures optimal plant growth.

OCAP supplies CO2 to horticulture in the Westland horticulture area and surrounding areas. The CO2 is available as a residual product from the Alco Energy bioethanol plant. It has expanded its ethanol capacity and, related to this, the available quantity of CO2. This capacity expansion created the need for a new CO2 capture and purification plant.

Responsibilities Ekinetix: project development, preparation and overall project management (EPCM). This includes detail engineering, procurement management of equipment and services, construction supervision, cost control, quality, planning and safety. This plant was built under running process conditions.

The pictures show: the exterior of the two CO2 cleaning plants; the inside with the compressor, cooling system, molecular sieve skid and pipework; the outside with the scrubber and supply pipeline for the OCAP network, of the most recently built plant.

Completed: Q3 2020