Post-Combustion Carbon Capture
General Information
- Description
- Benefits
Post-combustion carbon capture means scrubbing the CO2 from the flue gas of fossil-fired power plants. It represents one of several technologies to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fired power plants in oder to mitigate climate change. Siemens offers a proprietary process using amino-acid salt formulations, the PostCap process, for post-combustion carbon capture. Post-combustion carbon capture can be applied in new power plants, but also retrofitted to existing power plants. Furthermore, new power plants can be planned capture-ready in order to enable or facilitate later retrofit of a post-combustion carbon capture plant.
PostCapTM, the Siemens Post-Combustion Technology (6 min.)
Your benefits from Siemens technology
- Siemens technology for your whole process chain – from power generation to flue-gas cleaning and CO2 scrubbing as well as CO2 compression for pipeline transport
Your benefits from Siemens expertise
- Siemens chemical engineering know-how
- Optimized efficiency of fossil-fired power plants
- PostCap carbon capture technology with low energy demand and lowest emissions
- Capture-ready and retrofit solutions for power plants
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Pilot and Demonstration Plants
- Description
- Benefits
- References
The planning and operation of pilot and demonstration plants are major steps toward implementation of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Pilot plants are typically slip-stream plants capturing up to 1% of the power plant’s CO2 emissions. Pilot plants permit to adapt the process to the site-specific flue gas conditions.
Demonstration plants are the next scale-up step between pilot plants and full-scale plants. They typically treat up to 50% of the flue gas emitted by the power plants.
- Power plant operators gain operating experience with this new technology
- Risk reduction for future large-scale carbon capture and storage plants
- Process adapted to specific requirements of power plant and operator
