The starting point is a solvent with special characteristics which provide the basis for a new process to capture CO2 from the flue gases of power plants. A pilot installation on an E.ON power plant site in Germany will be operational by 2010. Further developments will follow up until 2014. The mid-term target is to develop this new CO2 capture process ready for large-scale, commercial deployment by 2020.
According to E.ON, the new process and the energetically optimum integration into conventional power plants will be verified in 2010 in a small pilot plant under real operating conditions, with particular considerations of the significance for a full-scale plant. The new process will not only be feasible for new power plants, but it will also be appropriate for retrofitting existing plants, which opens up significant application potentials worldwide, the company said.
Bernhard Fischer, chief technology officer of E.ON Energie, said: E.ON as a world-leading energy supplier brings into this partnership its experience from the planning and operation of numerous fossil-fueled power plants and the site for the planned pilot plant.
