Flue Gas Carbon Capture Plants.

By Linde and BASF.

→ Cooperation
Your benefits

The alliance between Linde, a world-leading gases and engineering company and BASF, The 

Chemical Company, offers great benefits to our customers:

→ Complete capture plants including 

CO2-compression/drying from one source – 

Linde with BASF technology

→ Backflow of many operators experiences 

from numerous gas treatment reference 

plants

→ Integrated technical solutions

→ Proven and tested processes including 

guarantees

→ Synergies between process, engineering, 

construction and operation

→ Optimised total and operational costs for 

the owner

02 Linde and BASF

Taking on the Challenge 

of Carbon Capture.

Capturing carbon dioxide from low pressure 

flue gas streams in power or chemical plants 

has become an important global environmental topic. Linde and BASF have joined 

forces to take on the challenges associated 

with carbon capture and are jointly marketing new, advanced technology. Linde is 

offering turn-key capture plants while BASF 

is the leading technical supplier for gas 

treatment world wide.

The captured carbon dioxide can be 

used commercially for example for EOR 

(enhanced oil recovery) or as a building 

block for the production of urea. Alternatively it can be stored underground as a 

carbon abatement measure.

Based on the pilot plant experiences in Wilsonville, USA, and Niederaussem, Germany, 

Linde and BASF are constanly developing 

solutions for full scale power plants. The 

PCC (Post-Combustion Capture) technology 

is now commercially available for lignite 

and hard coal fired power plant as well as 

for gas turbine applications. 
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Post-Combustion Capture pilot plant 

in Wilsonville, USA

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected technology group The Linde 

Group for the improvement of CO2 capture technologies. In this field 

Linde was strongly supported by BASF, the leading technology supplier 

for acid gas removal from gaseous streams. Linde’s pilot plant, to be built 

in Wilsonville, AL, is due to be operational by early 2014.

Based on BASF’s design of the process set-up for state-of-the-art solvents for CO2 scrubbing the facility will test novel CO2 scrubbing solutions 

to reduce the energy consumption and costs of advanced carbon capture 

and separation systems for coal-fired power plants.

The pilot plant is designed to limit the increase of levelized cost of 

electricity to no more than 35 percent compared to about 80 percent 

added cost for existing technologies. The new plant is build on the 

extensive experience Linde and BASF jointly gained in Niederaussem.

Post-Combustion Capture at lignite-fired power plant 

in Niederaussem, Germany

Linde has successfully installed a PCC pilot plant, which is connected 

to the world’s most modern lignite-fired power plant in Niederaussem, 

Germany. The innovative project is the result of cooperation between 

Linde, the power plant operator RWE and BASF, which has developed 

a new CO2 capture technology. The new solution is the most effective 

way to capture the CO2. Linde delivered detailed engineering, equipment procurement and construction of the pilot plant. The installation 

was completed and tested in 2009.

As part of the cooperation with RWE and Linde, BASF started the development of highly energy efficient technology to capture CO2 from flue 

gases. Novel technology including new solvents is being tested at this 

facility in Niederaussem. 

BASF has extensive experience in removing CO2 from gas streams, marketing its amine scrubbing technology for the removal of acid gases such 

as CO2 under the brand name OASE®. The BASF process is used successfully in more than 300 plants worldwide to scrub natural, synthesis and 

other industrial gases.

Reference projects.
Profiles and contacts.

Technologies of BASF

→ Capture of CO2 from flue gases PCC 

(Post-Combustion Capture)

→ Capture of CO2 from ammonia and 

oxo-synthesis gas and iron ore gas

→ Capture of acid gas from natural gas 

Contact

Mr. Iven Clausen

iven.clausen@basf.com

Phone +49.621.60-99232

Fax +49.621.60-21033

www.oase.basf.com

Headquarters (postal address)

BASF SE

E-CZA/ML – G200

67056 Ludwigshafen

Germany

Technologies of Linde

→ PCC (Post-Combustion Capture)

→ IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle)

→ Oxy-fuel combustion (air separation unit, CO2 handling)

→ CO2 compression, purification, liquefaction, utilisation 

and storage (above ground)

→ Food grade CO2

Contact

Mr. Torsten Stoffregen

torsten.stoffregen@linde-le.com

Phone +49.351.250-3538

Fax +49.351.250-4805

www.linde-engineering.com

Headquarters (postal address)

Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH

Carbon & Energy Solutions

Postal office box 210353

01265 Dresden

Germany

IV.P2e.1208