![]() It has more than 500,000 shareholders (NYSE: SO) and has been traded since September 30, 1949. The company has approximately 31,300 employees. Southern Company is one of the largest energy providers in the United States and is ranked 126th on the Fortune 500 listing of the largest U.S. Southern Company's regulated regional electric utilities serve a 120,000-square-mile (310,000 km 2) territory with 27,000 miles (43,000 km) of distribution lines. Through its subsidiaries it serves 9 million gas and electric utility customers in 6 states. The company is the second largest utility company in the U.S. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with executive offices also located in Birmingham, Alabama. The result should prove that CO2 capture is economically feasible, substantially reducing emissions and their negative impact on climate.Southern Company is an American gas and electric utility holding company based in the southern United States. “It allows us to combine our experience in the Niederaussem project with our decades of large plant engineering experience and process integration capabilities to reduce the capital cost when built at scale. Christian Bruch, Member of the Executive Board of The Linde Group. “Linde is pleased to partner with BASF on the Wilsonville project,” said Dr. As part of this cooperation, BASF developed it’s highly energy efficient technology to capture CO2 from flue gas. Together with BASF and Germany’s power plant operator RWE, Linde also installed a pilot plant for carbon capture in Niederaussem, Germany in 2009. ![]() The pilot plant at the National Carbon Capture Center leveraged the earlier experience that Linde and BASF jointly gained in a similar project in Germany. BASF’s almost 50 years of experience in industrial gas treating, combined with the expertise of Linde in large-scale engineering, procurement and construction, will lead us to the commercial scale-up of OASE blue technology.” ![]() “Long-term pilot testing demonstrated the solvents’ performance and stability. Andreas Northemann, Vice President of BASF’s OASE Gas Treating Excellence. “The amine-based OASE blue technology offers significant benefits for CO2 capture as it aims to reduce the regeneration energy requirements using novel solvents,” said Dr. The pilot plant has operated at the facility for more than 1,200 hours at a higher regeneration pressure of 3.4 bar absolute, thereby demonstrating a cost advantage over other amine-based technologies. The NCCC includes a post-combustion carbon capture facility that allows testing and integration of advanced technologies using actual coal-derived flue gas from an 880-MW pulverized coal unit at Alabama Power’s Plant in Gaston. ![]() ![]() The design capacity of the operation was up to 1.5 Megawatt-electric (MWe) and required less than 2.8 gigajoules of regeneration steam per metric ton of CO2. Specifically, it captured more than 90 percent CO2 from the flue gas while the purity of the CO2 was more than 99.9 percent. Parametric and long-duration testing confirm the main performance targets set for the facility. The technology used during the pilot project integrates BASF’s advanced aqueous amine-based solvent and process technology, marketed by BASF under the OASE blue brand, with novel CO2-capture process and engineering innovations developed by Linde. Based on the successful completion, BASF and Linde will begin larger-scale testing and explore commercial opportunities. Since January 2015, the project operated a pilot plant under a cooperative agreement with DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Department of Energy (DOE) research facility managed and operated by Southern Company, in Wilsonville, AL. BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, and The Linde Group, a technology company, successfully completed a joint pilot project to improve capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue gas at a coal fired power plant at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC). ![]()
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