Project Description

The goal of this project is to design, secure permits for, build, and operate a large-scale, sorbent-based, carbon capture system (CCS) pilot at a coal fired power generation facility. The project is organized into 4 distinct phases with go/no-go decision points between each phase. Over the course of the entire project, we plan to design (Phase 1), secure permits (Phase 2), build (Phase 3), and operate (Phase 4) a large-scale CCS pilot at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC) site located adjacent the Dry Fork Power Station located near Gillette, WY. The proposed large-scale CCS pilot system will separate carbon from a slipstream of the Dry Fork Station flue gas and validate the carbon capture efficiency at >90% (threshold) and >95% (objective) with a CO2 product purity > 95% under actual exhaust gas conditions.

In Phase I, the only portion of the project current funded, TDA and its partners will complete a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a commercial-scale, advanced carbon capture system capable of processing up to 23 MW (roughly 200,000 MTPY) net CO2 with 90+% carbon capture efficiency and 95+% CO2 purity. The host site, the Wyoming ITC, is situated adjacent to Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station power generating facility. Dry Fork Station is a coal-fired power plant rated at roughly 405 MW (net) that currently releases roughly 2.7 million MTPY of CO2. In later project phases, we plan to pursue permitting, construct, and test the pilot-scale CCS unit at Wyoming ITC’s large test bay. The test bay has been designed and constructed specifically to facilitate large-scale demonstrations up to roughly the 23 MWe scale. You can find more info here

Our Partners

  • University of Wyoming (UWYO) School of Energy Resources (SER)

    UWYO/SER will assist with Community Benefit activities. SER is committed to cultivating relationships with key stakeholders to increase collaborative engagement with historically underserved stakeholder groups

  • GR2 Engineering

    GR2 Engineering, a highly specialized Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) firm, will work with TDA to complete the design of balance of plant, manage the FEED tasks and specify the specialty equipment (e.g., valves, vacuum system) used in the carbon capture module.

  • SLB

    SLB will work with TDA to carry out a business case analysis and in the commercialization of the concept. SLB seeks to empower local teams by supporting societies and communities by understanding local impacts, aligning with local priorities and accelerating action.

  • University of Colorado, Denver (UCD)

    Dr. Arunprakash Karunanithi from the University of Colorado, Denver (UCD) will complete a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for the pilot-scale plant and the full-scale system.

  • Wyoming ITC

    WITC is the host site for the pilot project.

  • BKS Environmental

    Breda Schladweiler of BKS Environmental will provide NEPA consulting. NEPA stands for National Environmental Policy Act, which is a law that requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impact of their actions before making decisions.