April 26, 2024

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[THE INVESTOR] The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. said on Oct. 16 that it has completed construction of a facility that can separate over 90 percent of CO2 from gas emitted from a coal-fired thermal power plant.

KEPCO opened the one-megawatt CO2 separator facility, the world‘s largest, built inside a thermal power plant complex in Dangjin, 123 kilometers south of Seoul.

The utility firm and Arstroma, a Korean venture company, have jointly worked to commercialize the technology to efficiently reduce CO2 emissions at low cost.

The facility will annually separate about 7,000 tons of CO2 from Dangjin Thermal Power Plant Unit 5, KEPCO said.

By Alex Lee and newswires (alexlee@heraldcorp.com)