Tail-end CO2 capture as convincing opportunity for retrofitting of coal-fired power stations and related R&D objectives

CO 2 -capture techniques of the so-called post-combustion-category appear to be highly attractive. This publication outlines the concept of two recently started research projects, interrelating the experimental idea to a reasonable capture-ready-design. The experimental ideas are the use of hollow fibre (membrane)-contactors as absorption apparatus with flash-desorption of amine solution as solvents and the operating of a mobile potash scrubber in the by-pass flue gas stream of commercially run power station