E.ONs Post Combustion – Wilhelmshaven

Facts:

Although E.ON has been approaching CCS technologies carefully, E.ON is now planning seven smaller pilot plants, all of which are aiming to optimize post combustion methods for capturing CO2. E.ON plans to pursue the development of post combustion technologies with a budget of € 100 million until 2014. Four of the projects are planned in Germany in cooperation with Siemens, Fluor, Cansolv and Mitsubishi. One of the projects is located at E.ON’s coal fired power plant in Wilhelmshaven and is scheduled to start operation in 2010. Fluor and E.ON Energy have formed a strategic partnership for the development of a retrofitted pilot plant using Flour’s Econamine FG+ technology. The technology uses monoethanolamine as the solvent for efficient capture of CO2. The pilot plant will be small in scale with only 5.5 MW and has a budget of € 10 million.

Timing:

Start operation in 2010.