The Eighth Post-Combustion Capture Conference (PCCC-8) is the leading conference on post-combustion capture and co-organised by IEAGHG. This year it will take place in Marseille, France and is hosted by the DRIVE partner TotalEnergies. From 16–18 September 2025 around 200-250 attendees from academic, industry and government will present and discuss reports from the major international capture test centres, from demonstration facilities, as well as from commercial CCS plants currently in operation. It is clear that the DRIVE project intends to contribute to the international knowledge exchange with its globally unique results on deep removal of CO₂ from meanwhile four testing campaigns comprising – until now – eight months testing time.

It is planned to present

• results of the systematic tests of operational parameter and process configurations carried out at RWE’s capture pilot plant at Niederaussem in Germany with the amine-based capture solvent CESAR1,
• the feasibility of highest CO₂ capture rates from 98.0% to >99.9%,
• the direct comparison of the energetic performance of very aged and fresh CESAR1 solvent, due to an exchange of the solvent inventory after more than 15,000 hours capture plant operation without application of any solvent cleaning system,
• the performance of TNO’s amine degradation model based on solvent analysis data and Hovyu’s validation of a mass-transfer rate-based process simulator using test results.

The presented insights from continuous longtime testing with real flue gas will contribute to further advance feasibilities of industrial CO₂ capture.