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How can you make more out of your biogenic co2 Episode 2 - Paper Technology International 2023

PAPERTECHNOLOGYINTERNATIONAL - How can you make more out of your biogenic co2 Episode 2 - Paper Technology International 2023
In respect of FlagshipONE some major milestones had been
achieved:
- The main, and most important milestone, was that at the
beginning of the year of 2022 the investor to build this first of its kind
eMethanol plant stepped in: Ørsted, a multinational power company
and world renowned leader for offshore wind parks, located in
Fredericia/Denmark. Coming from decades developing and building
mainly wind parks, like the world biggest, Hornsea 2 off the UK
East Coast, Ørsted decided to make the next logical step on their
sustainability roadmap: using sustainable electric energy to generate
Green Hydrogen or Green Fuels, as at FlagshipONE, to produce
CO2 neutral eMethanol.
- Another important milestone was that FlagshipONE
obtained, in July 2022, the building permit from a district court
under the Swedish Land and Environmental Court of Appeals,
approximately nine months after the application was submitted, to
build the first of its kind large-scale facility for producing eMethanol
(or CO2 neutral Methanol) at Örnsköldsvik in Sweden.
- But what is a plant for producing eMethanol without the
off-takers for this Green Methanol? So in September 2022 Stena
Line, DFDS, Ørsted and Liquid Wind partnered with the Port of
Gothenburg to establish an eMethanol (e-fuels) hub in Gothenburg.
As the largest port in Scandinavia, Gothenburg is the ideal choice
for the first delivery and bunkering point for green e-fuels produced
from FlagshipONE.
Stena Line is a Swedish ferry line company with an
extensive European route network and DFDS is a leading European
shipping and logistics company.
- On 19. December 2022 Ørsted’s Board of Directors
took a final investment decision (FID) on the 50,000 tonnes/year
FlagshipONE e-methanol project. FlagshipONE will be Ørsted’s
first commercial-scale Power2X facility and is an important
stepping stone towards their ambition of taking a leading position in
renewable hydrogen and green fuels. Reinforcing the commitment
to the FID, Ørsted has taken full ownership of FlagshipONE by
acquiring the remaining 55% stake in the project from Liquid Wind
AB, the original developer of the project.
- Ørsted will start onsite construction of FlagshipONE
in the spring of 2023. The project will be located on the grounds
of the current biomass-fired combined heat and power plant
Hörneborgsverket in Örnsköldsvik, which is operated by Övik
Energi. The e-methanol from FlagshipONE will be produced using
renewable electricity and biogenic carbon dioxide captured from
Hörneborgsverket; in addition, FlagshipONE will use steam, process
water, and cooling water from Hörneborgsverket. Excess heat from
the e-methanol production process will be delivered back to Övik
Energi and integrated in their district heating supply.
- I can also announce that Siemens Energy, as with their
other OEM partners for the building of FlagshipONE, have been
contracted for the delivery of the Electrolyzers, entire Electrification,
Automation, Instrumentation and Digitalization equipment, including
the implementation of a Digital Engineering Master and Copy
Landscape as the base for the future engineering of all other
Flagships to come. The respective execution of the project is, in
Siemens Energy, already under full swing, plant start of operation in
the first quarter of 2025.
You may ask yourself meanwhile - interesting, but what has
this all got to do with the Pulp & Paper Industry? Well, despite the
fact that the Pulp & Paper Industry is the biggest emitter of biogenic
CO2, which is historically more or less 100% wasted (respectively
“blown into the wind”), I would like to indicate that the “Making more
out of your biogenic CO2” is becoming reality and not anymore
fiction or a “future vision”. I can tell you clearly - step in! - you will no
longer be the “first mover”, which I know is something the pulp and
paper industry doesn’t like to be in most cases.
To raise your curiosity even more, I would also like to
address the fact that FlagshipTWO is also already well on track and
on the way to realization. In June 2022 Sundsvall Energi (Sweden/
Sundsvall) partnered up with Liquid Wind to be the host and
provide carbon dioxide (and other infrastructures) for the second
commercial-scale electro fuel facility in Sweden. FlagshipTWO
is foreseen to produce double the amount of eMethanol as
FlagshipONE, round about 110.000t/year of Green Methanol.
Siemens Energy and the other partners of Liquid Wind are already
working intensively on the respective FEED Study, to be finalized in
summer 2023.
If you are still not
convinced to also become,
part of this success story, with
“your own CO2”, it may help if
I mention that FlagshipTHREE
and FlagshipFOUR are also a
part of Liquid Wind’s road map,
to have a minimum of 10 green
Methanol facilities in operation
by 2030.
Figure 2: Sundsvall Energi,
biogenic CO2 supplier and
host for FlagshipTWO.
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