Mitsubishi affiliate bags QAFAC’s carbon dioxide recovery plant order

TOKYO, JAPAN: MHI Industrial Engineering and Services Pvt Ltd (MIES), an affiliate of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has received an order for a large-scale carbon dioxide (CO₂) recovery plant for Qatar Fuel Additives Co Ltd (QAFAC). The CO₂, which is to be recovered at up to 500 tonne per day is one of the world’s largest CO₂ capture capacities, will be used to increase production of methanol. The event marks the first overseas order for an MHI CO₂ recovery plant specifically targeted at raising methanol production. Construction of the plant is expected to complete in October 2014.

The CO₂ recovery plant will be built within QAFAC’s methanol production plant near Doha. It will capture CO₂ from combustion exhaust gas emitted in the methanol production process which will use MHI’s CO₂ recovery technology, KM CDR Process. Although MHI has previously licensed its CO₂ recovery technology to many plants around the world, the QAFAC order represents only the third licensing-plus-EPC order for one of its CO₂ recovery plants. MHI looks to market its CO₂ recovery technology.

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