KVA Linth receives special prize for CO2 capture project
The Linth waste incineration plant has been awarded a special prize by InfraWatt for its CO2 capture and storage project. By 2029, a facility is to be built that captures and stores 120,000 tons of CO2 annually.
The Linth waste incineration plant(KVA Linth) has been honoured with a special award from InfraWatt. The association for the utilisation of energy from wastewater, waste, waste heat and drinking water, which is based in the canton of Vaud, recognised the Linth waste incineration plant’s project to build a large-scale plant for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide by 2029, according to a press release.
Such CCS (carbon capture and storage) plants are suitable for filtering carbon dioxide from the combustion air and channeling it into specially constructed storage facilities. The CO2 captured in the Linth waste incineration plant is compressed and liquefied at low temperatures and transported away in tank wagons. An output of 90 percent is forecast for the capture plant at KVA Linth, which would correspond to around 15.5 tonnes of captured CO2 per hour. When the plant is completed in 2029, 120,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide can thus be captured and stored annually with 8,000 operating hours.
The project is being developed together with KVA Linth and the Centre for Sustainable Waste and Resource Utilisation. All development steps will be made transparently available to all MSWI plants in Switzerland, which will then be able to implement the corresponding technologies.