The agreement between CSIRO and China's Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI), will see TPRI install, commission and operate a post combustion capture (PCC) pilot plant at the Huaneng Beijing Co-Generation Power Plant as part of CSIRO's research program.

The pilot plant is designed to capture 3,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum from the power station and begins the process of adapting this technology to evaluate its effectiveness in Chinese conditions.

The Federal Government is supporting CSIRO's clean coal research through a $12 million grant, of which $4 million supports this work in China.

CSIRO is also undertaking PCC research with a $5.6 million project in the Latrobe Valley, which focuses on brown coal.