Just over a year ago the partners Holcim Germany, thyssenkrupp Uhde and the Technical University of Berlin announced their cooperation to research the use of the latest amine scrubbing technology to separate the process waste gas CO2 at Holcim's Beckum cement plant. The installation of an initial plant module at the plant marks the start of the first test phase of the project.
Reduced CO2 emissions from cement plants
The project aims to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from existing cement plants and at the same time make the captured CO2 usable for other applications in the future. The promising technology, which can make an important contribution to decarbonizing the cement industry in Germany, will be tested by the partners on a small scale until the end of 2025. If the tests go as planned, the result after capture and processing will be high-purity CO2, which could then be sold as a feedstock to other industries or processed into other energy sources, such as methanol.
In the course of the test phase, continuous adjustments are to be made and the test capacities expanded with the construction of a second plant module with new innovative processes. The performance and efficiency of these facilities will be tested with real waste gas at the Holcim cement plant in Beckum. With this process, the partners want to make a contribution to the reduction of climate gases, particularly in existing cement production plants.
The aim is to retrofit the plants with equipment to separate CO2 from the process exhaust gas without having to make further adjustments to the production process. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection.
