Capturing Carbon Dioxide from waste incinerator!

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are working with this highly innovative waste incineration plant to develop a process that is able to capture CO₂from its emissions. The pilot carbon capture plant has proved highly successful so maybe this is the way forward for EfW facilities?

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The Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant is one of the largest CHP plants in northern Europe, with the capacity to treat 560,000 tonnes of waste annually. Developed by the Copenhagen-based waste management company ARC (Amager Ressourcecenter), which is jointly owned by five Copenhagen-area municipalities, the CHP plant features a number of innovations including a rooftop artificial ski slope, which is part of an outdoor activity centre known as CopenHill.

Carbon capture pilot plant

The owners of the Amager Bakke plant are planning to apply for 1.5 billion DKK ($230 million USD) for a CCS plant capable of capturing 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year – if the right regulatory framework and sufficient funding is provided by the Danish state. This plant would employ the same amine scrubbing process that has been proven by the pilot carbon capture plant.

A case study, Decarbonization technology proven at Waste-to-Energy Plant has been published and shows that the project is utilising advanced gas analysers from Vaisala (FIN) to measure carbon capture efficiency and therefore CCUS viability. These analysers are unique because they operate inline an in real-time. 

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