Guidance

Monitoring stack emissions: carbon capture plants with solvent-based abatement

How to monitor emissions from post combustion carbon capture plants that use solvent- based abatement to remove carbon dioxide from stack gas emissions.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 28 March 2025
• Last updated: 9 September 2026
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  1. 9 September 2026

     Added information about characterizing amines and nitrosamines based on different volatilities. Added link to information on using continuous monitoring techniques to measure ammonia.

  2. 28 March 2025

     First published.

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Monitoring stack emissions: carbon capture plants with solvent-based abatement

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This guidance provides a standardised approach to monitoring stack emissions from post combustion carbon capture plant regulated under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) (Recast) (Text with EEA relevance).