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Linde Engineering to install CO2-capture pilot plant in Springfield, Ill.
By Mary Page Bailey |
May 28, 2021
Linde Engineering Americas (LEA) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to install and test a 200-ton/day CO
2 capture large pilot plant at the City Water, Light & Power (CWLP) power plant in Springfield, IL through a funding award made to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, Ill.) The project will be executed in collaboration with BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, CWLP and ACS. The successful construction and operation of this plant will provide a means to demonstrate an economically attractive and transformational capture technology.