Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology is one of the key ways to reconcile the rising demand for fossil fuels with the need to reduce C0₂ emissions. Globally, CCS is likely to be a necessity in order to meet the European Union's greenhouse gas reduction targets. Post-combustion processes like amine-based chemical absorption of C02 are ideally suitable for conventional power plants. However, there still are only a few facilities worldwide in which this technology is actively employed, and the demonstration phase of CCS technology requires more extensive implementation under practical conditions. The Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal in Zabrze started post-combustion CO₂ capture R&D in 2007. The first pilot tests of CO₂ capture from coal-fired flue gas in Poland are carried out in cooperation with TAURON Polska Energia and Tauron Wytwarzanie as a result of the Strategic Research Programme "Development of a technology for highly efficient zero-emission coal-fired power units integrated with CO₂ capture". This paper presents bench-scale and pilot testing data of CO₂ removal by MEA-based chemical solvents. The achieved efficiency of CO₂ separation in this analysis was above 85%, and energy demand of the sorbent regeneration process was in the range of 4.8-7.5 MJ/kg CO₂, as with other available first generation Carbon Capture Technologies.