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MHI wins CO2 capture plant design deal for HEPCO facility

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has received an order from Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc.  for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a CO2 capture facility for Hokkaido Electric Power's Tomato -atsuma Power Plant. The facility will capture 5,200 tons of CO2 per day from flue gas produced by combustion in the power plant's boilers. In this FEED, the main equipment and specifications will be examined based on MHI's CO2 capture technology, with a view to introducing the facility in the future . Once completed, the facility is expected to capture the largest amount of CO2 in Japan. In response to a public tender for "design work related to advanced CCS (Note 1) projects" by the Japan Energy and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc. and Idemitsu Kosan…