Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 60 No. 1 (2023)   New Products & Technologies
    New Products

    CO2 Compressors Contributing to Building CCUS Value Chain

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation

    CCUS, a technology that can absorb, transport, use, and store carbon dioxide (hereafter, 2) generated from industrial sectors, is garnering interest in response to the world's urgent need to decarbonize. 2 is regarded to be the main contributor to global warming. So, the CCUS technology extracts 2 from exhaust gas, transfers it to storage locations via pipelines or liquefied 2 carriers, and injects it into strata like saline formations and depleted oil fields that can store 2 for a long time. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation (MCO) designs, manufactures and supplies two kinds of centrifugal compressors, single-shaft and multi-stage compressors and integrally geared compressors. So, MCO is suitably placed to offer 2 compressors best suited to customers' projects. Large-scale CCUS initiatives are currently being planned all around the world. By improving MCO's integrally geared compressor for large volume of 2, MCO created a new integrally geared compressor to satisfy the demands. This report highlights the development of a CCUS value chain and describes MCO's technology for 2 compressors as well as the features of the new integrally geared compressor.