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Linde Engineering will build and commission a 200,000 tonne per year carbon capture plant at a Swedish waste-to-energy facility, with carbon dioxide (CO2) due to be stored in the North Sea off Norway.
It comes after Swedish utility Öresundskraft took final investment decision on the SEK 2.4bn ($242m) project at its Filbornaverket waste-to-energy facility in Helsingborg at the end of September, with construction due to begin later this year.
Linde Engineering will undertake the carbon capture plant’s engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning, with plans to bring the system online by 2029.
It will combine BASF’s OASE blue carbon capture technology with Linde’s CO2 purification and liquefaction systems, while Linde Gas will operate an intermediate storage terminal at Sweden’s Halmstad port.
Up to 45% of captured CO2 will be biogenic, enabling permanent carbon removals alongside reductions in fossil emissions.
The plant will also recover process heat to supply around 20MW to Helsingborg’s district heating network.
The development has been supported by around SEK 830m ($83.8m) in grants from the EU’s Innovation Fund and the Swedish Energy Agency.
Captured volumes will be shipped to Norway’s project, which began storing CO2 2,600 metres beneath the seabed in 2025. The storage site is expanding annual transport and storage capacity from 1.5 million tonnes to over five million tonnes by 2028.
It comes as the EU proposes phasing municipal waste incineration into its Emissions Trading System between 2031 and 2034.
This could create new opportunities for industrial gas suppliers in CO2 purification, liquefaction and logistics, alongside potential new merchant supplies.
However, with captured volumes increasingly earmarked for permanent storage, greater capture capacity may not necessarily translate into greater merchant availability.
