Shell to provide technology for Humber project

Shell Catalysts & Technologies was appointed by The Humber Zero project to provide the technology that will capture millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the VPI Immingham combined heat and power station (CHP) in the UK.

Humber Zero is a multi-billion-pound project to decarbonise vital industry in the Immingham industrial area in northern Lincolnshire, England, on the south bank of the River Humber. The project will incorporate both post-combustion carbon capture and the production of hydrogen for energy.

Shell will be providing its Cansolv CO₂ post-combustion carbon capture technology to be retrofitted to the existing VPI Immingham power station stacks which emit carbon-rich flue gas. Shell’s Alliance partner for Cansolv CO₂ technology, Technip Energies, will support the design of the capture unit and the pilot plant. The technology will capture up to 95 percent of the CO₂ in the gas, preventing it from being emitted to the atmosphere and allowing it to be compressed, transported and safely stored in geological structures under the seabed.