In the paper is described the explorative research program on CO2 remo
val, performed with the aim to review the CO2 recovery technologies an
d to obtain the most suitable method for CO2 recovery from flue gas. F
urther, the paper presents the activity focused in studying on laborat
ory scale the chemical absorption with solvents, and activators in ord
er to obtain data on the most advantageous solvents and operating cond
itions. The CO2 recovery laboratory facility is in detail presented, t
ogether with the experiments performed for the absorption and desorpti
on processes which leaded to the encouraging results.