The pilot facility at Niederaußem will trial new scrubbing liquids aimed at substantially improving CO2 capture technology.
With a net efficiency of over 43 percent, the 1,000-megawatt lignite-fired BoA 1 unit in Niederaußem that will house the pilot facility is the most efficient in the world.
The test programme for the new CO2 scrubbing agents from BASF will run here until early 2010. On successful completion of the pilot phase, construction of an industrial-scale plant is planned.
The objective is to make CO2 capture technology commercially available with a view to retrofitting existing modern plants and incorporating it in new ones from 2015. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie) is supporting the pilot plant financially with around EUR 4 million.
At a glance | |
| Name: | CO2 separation |
| Country: | Germany |
| Raw material: | CO2 |
| Process technology: | Post-combustion technology |
| Cooperation partner: | Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie) |
| More information: | CO2 plants |
