CCS Project Porsgrunn

CCS Forum – Rotterdam October 26 2017

• Yara is a Norwegian , major global Fertilizer Company

• Yara has a history back to 1905 when the company Norsk Hydro was established, based on the invention to bind nitrogen from air by the electric arc.

• Norsk Hydro developed in businesses as Agriculture, Petrochemical, Energy , Light metals and Oil& gas

• In 2005 the Fertilizer division in Norsk Hydro was listed as a separate company – Yara

• Yara has production plants at all continents.

• Yara Porsgrunn is one of the major productions plants in Yara

• Yara Porsgrunn is one of 3 Norwegian plants developing projects to capture CO2 from it’s processes as part of a full chain CCS project initiated and managed by the Norwegian Government

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Yara – A major global Fertilizer Company

Revenue

NOK 95.2

Billion(USD 11.4 Billion)

In 2016

Yara in numbers

Close to

15,000employees

Sales to about

160countries

Our global presence is growing

14 736The number of people we employ

+60The number of countries we operate in

15 millionThe number of farmers we work with

+160The number of countries we sell to

240 milliontons of grains our products help produce

50 millioncitizens our products deliver fresh air for

300 millionpeople our products help to feed

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Yara Porsgrunn – Production site since 1929

Yara Porsgrunn - Facts

✓Production start:

1929 Nitric Acid plant 1 + Calcium Nitrate

1938 NPK plant 2

1965 Ammonia plant 1

1967 Ammonia plant 2

1968 NPK plant 3

1975 Nitric Acid plant 2

1987 NPK plant 4

1991 Nitric Acid plant 3

✓Volumes:

NPK 2 000 000 ton

Calcium Nitrate 1 000 000 ton

Nitric Acid 1 400 000 ton

Ammonia 525 000 ton

CO2 200 000 ton

✓Employees: 403

NPK plants

Ammonia plant

Calcium nitrate

plant

Research

Center Nitric acid plant

YP Adm

Yara at Herøya Industrial Park - Porsgrunn

• The Sources for CO2 capture are identified at the ammonia plant

• 2 sources

• CO2 from the process gas – synthesis gas - (680.000 tons/year)

• CO2 from the flue gas (400.000 tons/ year)

• All ammonia plants have CO2 removal units for the process gas

• The captured CO2 are often :

• Used as feed-stock for Urea or melamine production

• Used as food-grade CO2

• Released to the atmosphere

• At the Yara Porsgrunn plant there is a water-wash CO2 removal process. This is a very particular

process with limitations in respect of «access» to the captured CO2

• Today 200.000 tons/ year is liquefied and utilized as a food grade product

• There is no capture plant for CO2 from the flue gas.

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Yara Porsgrunn - CO2 Sources

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Ammonia plant Porsgrunn, with emission sources

• EVALUATED CONCEPTS

• Flue Gas

• Several concepts for CO2 capture by amine technology

• Chilled Ammonia Process (CAP)

• Process gas

• Replace existing water-wash CO2 removal by a new a MDEA process

• Vacuum stripping

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Yara CCS Project – Evaluated concepts

• CONCLUSION

• Yara has completed a Concept Selection study concluding that CO2 capture

is feasible and we have concluded cost estimates for the concepts that has

been studied.

• Yara has concluded to continue to develop the following concepts:

• Flue gas

• CAP process

• Process gas

• Replace the water-wash process by an aMDEA process

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Yara CCS Project – Conclusion

• Yara want to support the development of sustainable and environmental friendly farming and has over years been dedicated to reduce emission from production and to develop products with reduced carbon footprints.

• CO2 capture can be an important part of the solution to reduce CO emission from the industry

• Through the CCS project Yara can contribute to develop a full-chain CCS project

• As part of an international industry in a global market Yara recognize that incentives to support construction and operation of capture plants will be crucial

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Why do Yara participate in the CCS project ?