Industrial Carbon Management & Carbon Capture Solutions
Cutting emissions and capturing CO2 for reuse or storage
With global warming speeding up, it's critical to step up efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions like CO2. At Linde, we’re using carbon management technologies to cut emissions and prepare CO2 for reuse storage, creating practical, sustainable solutions.
Carbon intensity reduction built around your plant and process
The key to effective carbon management is understanding your unique business needs and plant setup. Companies need smarter ways to reduce their carbon footprint. With 140+ years of process industry expertise, Linde delivers cutting-edge CO2 solutions that are sustainable and best suited to your operation—from feasibility studies to engineering, procurement, and construction.
We design carbon capture solutions
Carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) to reduce emissions of CO2 from point sources such as power plants, cement production, and industrial processes has become significantly important worldwide. Linde offers various solutions to effectively capture your CO2 emissions and significantly reduce your operation’s carbon footprint.
Three ways Linde helps you capture carbon:
Post-combustion capture
The most widely used CCS technology for retrofitting industrial and power generating facilities. During the post-combustion process, flue gas resulting from burning fossil fuels passes through an absorber column with circulating liquid solvent, absorbing CO2 molecules. A heating medium like steam enables the adjacent regeneration column to release the CO2 from the solvent, and the CO2 is captured and piped away before it reaches the atmosphere.
Pre-combustion capture
Reforming and gasification processes react fossil fuels with air or pure oxygen to create a synthesis gas comprised of hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2). The CO2 molecules are separated out of the syngas stream before combustion or further downstream chemical use of the syngas takes place.
Oxyfuel combustion
Oxygen is separated from air and then combusted with a fossil fuel to produce flue gas containing mainly water vapor and higher concentrated CO2, making capture more economical. This process, for example, drives turbines and generates electricity, then the water vapor is cooled, condensed, and removed while the CO2 is captured, purified and piped away.
We are leaders in CO2 purification, liquefaction and compression.
Once captured, CO2 can follow various paths. One option is to put it to commercial use. From food- and beverage-grade CO2 to enhanced oil and gas recovery (EOR) to feedstock for the production of products like methanol or urea, captured gas can be put to environmentally and economically beneficial use in other applications.
Linde's expertise in purification, liquefaction, and compression technologies readies CO2 for utilization, intermediate storage in tanks, or subsurface storage. We deliver everything from equipment to turnkey installation, ensuring seamless integration.
Industries reducing carbon intensity with Linde solutions:
Energy and utilities
Electricity production generates the second largest share of greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly 60 percent of electricity in the US comes from burning fossil fuels, mostly coal and natural gas. Linde scrubs the CO2 from the low-CO2 concentration flue gases at ambient pressure by an amine wash process.
Cement
The cement industry emits seven percent of global industrial CO2 output. Linde is implementing an amine system to separate CO2 from a clinker kiln's flue gas stream. Plants for purification and liquefaction, tanks for intermediate storage of the product and truck loading facilities are also part of our project scope for a worldwide cement producer. Our HISORP® CC technology is another option for capture and purification for this industry.
Iron and steel
The amount of CO2 emissions from iron and steel manufacturing is almost double the amount of iron and steel created - a global average of 1.85 tons of carbon per 1 ton of steel. Replacement of coal with clean hydrogen can reduce emissions to nearly zero.
Chemicals
Linde's amine, as well as Linde's adsorption-based HISORP® CC technology is capturing CO2 from syngas, providing clean hydrogen to a petrochemical plant's processes. Both technologies can also be applied to capture CO2 from other petrochemical plant streams like tail and off-gases.
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What is carbon management?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the world’s primary human-produced greenhouse gas. Carbon management has the ultimate goal to help industries find cost-effective solutions in their transition to lower carbon intensity. Because every industry is different, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Effective carbon management takes an individualized approach to meet the unique business challenges and needs of each operation.
What is carbon capture?
The main carbon capture (CC) technologies in use today are post-combustion CO2 capture, pre-combustion CO2 capture, and oxyfuel combustion. Linde experts explain these and discuss examples where each technology can be applied.
Preparing CO2 for Sequestration and Storage
CO2 sequestration and storage underground is a crucial means to meeting global warming mitigation targets. Linde has the technologies and expertise to capture, process and compress CO2 in preparation for storage
Get our carbon management guide to help you navigate the path to lower intensity!
To help illustrate the effects of CO2 emissions and what can be done to curb them, we have developed a comprehensive guide that contains both necessary context and solutions – everything you need to help forge an effective path toward your clean energy goals.
