BASF and Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH (LKCA), a Linde Group subsidiary, will jointly market licenses and plants for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from flue gases in the future. The companies today, (date), signed the cooperation agreement.

 

Within this cooperation BASF will be responsible for the chemical processes for capturing CO₂, while LKCA will provide engineering and design as well as the construction of the facilities. The cooperation will focus mainly on the Middle East region, where the demand for purified CO₂ is increasing, for example to raise yields in crude oil production (by means of enhanced oil recovery) and in urea production.

 

“In a situation where energy production around the world relies predominantly on fossil materials and where this share is expected to increase further, we will concentrate precisely on these energy sources in our cooperation,” said Dr. Andreas Northemann, head of the gas treatment business in BASF’s Intermediates division, and added: “By pooling the two companies’ expertise we can provide our customers with integrated engineering solutions and even complete CO₂ capture plants.” “Through this cooperation we will contribute to capturing and transporting climate-damaging CO₂ in a controlled manner for recycling in purified form or final sequestration,” said LKCA Managing Director Jörg Linsenmaier.

 

LKCA, one of the world’s major chemical and gas plant engineering companies, has extensive expertise especially in the field of planning and building plants that separate and then compress CO₂ from flue gases.

 

BASF has vast experience in capturing CO₂ from gas flows. The company markets its amine-based gas treatment technology under the brand name aMDEA^®. For many years this BASF process has been used successfully around the world in more than 220 gas scrubbing facilities, as they are known, mainly in natural gas and syngas facilities.

 

Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH, a subsidiary of The Linde Group is one of the leading companies worldwide in the design, delivery and turnkey construction of chemical, gas, biotechnological and pharmaceutical plants. Commissioned by private and national clients, its engineers and managers successfully carry out projects of various sizes. It realises Linde processes as well as licensed and customer-owned processes. Chemical plants for recovery and processing of CO2 for the energy and petrochemical sector play an increasing role in the portfolio of the company. In the future field of CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) LKCA is building pilot and demonstration plants for international energy companies. For more information please refer to our website www.linde-kca.com .

 

The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 50,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide. In the 2008 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 12.7 billion. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services.

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Source: web of BASF