【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Processing Equipment】The first domestic coal-fired power plant project for low-pressure adsorption carbon capture on a scale of 10,000 tons was officially launched from 2013 to 2023

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On December 20, 2023, the project titled “Development of Key Technologies for Carbon Capture via Adsorption Method and Demonstration at a 10,000-ton scale”, carried out jointly by Ninghai Power Plant of **Energy Group Zhejiang Company and the Beijing Institute of Low-Carbon Clean Energy, was officially launched. This is China’s first carbon capture project using adsorption technology at a 10,000-ton scale in a coal-fired power plant, featuring low pressure and low energy consumption. 　　Achieving the \"dual carbon\" goals is a major strategic decision made by ***. Carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology is an essential option for the power generation industry to achieve deep emission reductions and reach carbon neutrality goals in a high-quality manner. Adsorption-based carbon capture technology boasts advantages such as environmental friendliness and the potential for reduced energy consumption, making it one of the carbon capture technologies with the greatest development potential. Through innovations in both material development and process design, the 10,000-ton per year carbon capture demonstration project at Ninghai Power Plant is expected to reduce the energy consumption in the capture process to below 2.0 GJ per ton of carbon dioxide, offering a more cost-effective technical solution for the low-carbon transformation of the energy industry. 　　Launched in 2021, this project addressed key bottlenecks such as the large-scale production of adsorption materials and the scaling up of capture processes. It led to the development of high-capacity carbon-based physical adsorption materials and related manufacturing technologies, and a low-energy carbon capture process based on \"low-pressure adsorption – vacuum regeneration\" was proposed. Studies were conducted to verify the performance of pilot-scale systems and to simulate process scaling, and a feasibility study report as well as a process package for a production scale of 10,000 tons were prepared. Relevant review experts unanimously agreed that the project’s technical approach is feasible, its process design is reasonable, its energy consumption metrics are advanced, and it holds great significance as a demonstration project. On this basis, the Ninghai Power Plant of Zhejiang Company has officially launched a 10,000-ton-scale demonstration project for adsorption-based carbon capture, utilizing the 1,000-megawatt ultra-supercritical unit platform. 　　In recent years, **energy groups have made significant efforts in researching cutting-edge CCUS technologies and carrying out engineering demonstrations. They have actively pursued various new technologies, including carbon capture via adsorption methods, membrane-based carbon capture, the electrocatalytic conversion of CO₂ into chemicals, and the mineralization of CO₂ for use in marine construction materials. To date, they have completed an CCS project with a capacity of 100,000 tons in Ordos, a 150,000-ton CCUS project at Jinjie Company, China’s first chemical-chain mineralization CCUS project, and Asia’s largest CCUS project for thermal power generation.