Meggitt PLC (Meggitt or the Group) announced that Heatric, a Meggitt subsidiary, has been chosen to supply recuperative heat exchangers for a revolutionary natural gas-fired pilot plant from NET Power offering low-cost energy with no carbon dioxide emissions. Heatric printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs), with their diffusion-bonded design, can perform as needed in the very high temperatures and pressures of the plant's core process. This multi-million pound contract, which represents a new market opportunity for Heatric in green energy generation, will see the delivery of four PCHEs by the end of April 2016, ready to commission the 50MWt demonstration plant in Texas, USA, later that year.

The NET Power plant will be delivered in partnership with CB&I, Exelon Generation, Toshiba and 8 Rivers Capital. Using supercritical CO2 (sCO2) as its working fluid, the system's major by-products will be water and a pipeline-quality, high-pressure stream of carbon dioxide ready to be stored underground permanently or compressed and liquefied for industrial use. To achieve as much heat recovery as possible as it exits the turbine, high efficiencies are needed to make the process viable in reducing the fuel required to generate electricity.

The ability of Heatric PCHEs to capture and recycle a significant proportion of the turbine exhaust energy flow in very demanding operating conditions makes a critical contribution to the economic viability of this pioneering green process.