CO2 capture, transport and storage are promising approaches, pointed up by international experts, to preserving the planet and helping to fight climate change.These processes aid to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of industrial facilities that use fossil fuels (fuel oil, gas or coal) such as power plants, steel mills, cement factories, oil refineries.Air Liquid is contributing to this project by supplying the technology of CO2 capture by means of oxycombustion. This process consists in replacing the air in an industrial boiler by pure oxygen. The fumes obtained when they come out of the boiler are then very concentrated in CO2 (90%).On January 11, 2010, the inauguration of the first European pilot integrating the entire process of capturing and storing CO2, the main greenhouse gas responsible for the planet’s global warming, will be held on the Lacq site in France.

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