The carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at the Boundary Dam Power Station was productive once again in October, as it captured 61,290 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and produced 216 tonnes of sulfuric acid from captured sulfur dioxide.
The CCS facility was online 87.9 per cent of October, coming offline for 42.7 hours to accommodate an outage at Boundary Dam Unit 3 and 47.6 hours to do maintenance on the CCS plant.
The CCS facility had been online 75 per cent of the time in the previous 12 months.
An average of about 110 megawatts of power was produced in October, compared to the previous 12-month average of 100.9 megawatts.
The 61,290 tonnes of CO2 captured was at 61 per cent of capacity. The average for the previous 12 months was 56,265 tonnes of CO2.
The average daily capture rate was 2,043 tonnes with a peak one-day capture rate of 2,680 tonnes.
As was reported by Estevan Mercury Publications earlier this month, November has been an eventful month for the CCS facility. The facility officially eclipsed three million tonnes of captured CO2 since coming online in 2014.
Also this month, the plant will come offline for approximately 18 days to perform regularly scheduled maintenance and cleaning of some process components, including the sulfur dioxide reboilers and sections of the CO2 absorber tower.
In the first 10 months of this year, 527,128 tonnes of CO2 were captured at the CCS facility.
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