The pilot plant, which is being sponsored by Germany’s ministry of economics, will run to the end of 2010.
Using ‘post-combustion capture’ technology developed by Siemens, the plant will be sited at E.ON’s Stuadinger coal-fired power station in Grosskrotzenburg, east of Frankfurt.
The technique involves removing carbon dioxide from Staudinger’s flue gas using clean agents. The ‘cleaned’ gases are then discharged into the atmosphere through the plant’s stack, while the captured carbon is stored for eventual sequestration underground.
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