Design strategies for oxy-combustion power plant captured CO2 purification
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Ikenna J. Okeke
Abstract
This study presents a novel design and techno-economic analysis of processes for the purification of captured CO2 from the flue gas of an oxy-combustion power plant fueled by petroleum coke. Four candidate process designs were analyzed in terms of GHG emissions, thermal efficiency, pipeline CO2 purity, CO2 capture rate, levelized costs of electricity, and cost of CO2 avoided. The candidates were a classic process with flue-gas water removal via condensation, flue-gas water removal via condensation followed by flue-gas oxygen removal through cryogenic distillation, flue-gas water removal followed by catalytic conversion of oxygen in the flue gas to water via reaction with hydrogen, and oxy-combustion in a slightly oxygen-deprived environment with flue-gas water removal and no need for flue gas oxygen removal. The former two were studied in prior works and the latter two concepts are new to this work. The eco-technoeconomic analysis results indicated trade-offs between the four options in terms of cost, efficiency, lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, costs of CO2 avoided, technical readiness, and captured CO2 quality. The slightly oxygen-deprived process has the lowest costs of CO2 avoided, but requires tolerance of a small amount of H2, CO, and light hydrocarbons in the captured CO2 which may or may not be feasible depending on the CO2 end use. If infeasible, the catalytic de-oxygenation process is the next best choice. Overall, this work is the first study to perform eco-technoeconomic analyses of different techniques for O2 removal from CO2 captured from an oxy-combustion power plant.
Funding source: National Science and Engineering Research Council
Award Identifier / Grant number: RGPIN-2016-06310
Funding source: Ontario Research Fund
Award Identifier / Grant number: RE09-058
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: The authors received funding for this research via an NSERC Discovery grant (RGPIN-2016-06310) and an Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence Grant (RE09-058).
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Nonlinear autoregressive-moving average-L2 (NARMA-L2) controller for multivariable ball mill plant
- An enhanced feedback-feedforward control scheme for process industries
- Appling the computational fluid dynamics studies of the thermogravitational column for N2-CO2 and He-Ar gas mixtures separation
- An enhancement in series cascade control for non-minimum phase system
- Modelling and simulation of industrial multistage flash desalination process with exergetic and thermodynamic analysis. A case study of Azzour seawater desalination plant
- Development of a CFD-based simulation model and optimization of thermal diffusion column: application on noble gas separation
- A machine-learning reduced kinetic model for H2S thermal conversion process
- Design strategies for oxy-combustion power plant captured CO2 purification
- Energy-saving investigation of vacuum reactive distillation for the production of ethyl acetate
- Reducing total annual cost and CO2 emissions in batch distillation for separating ternary wide boiling mixtures using vapor recompression heat pump
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Nonlinear autoregressive-moving average-L2 (NARMA-L2) controller for multivariable ball mill plant
- An enhanced feedback-feedforward control scheme for process industries
- Appling the computational fluid dynamics studies of the thermogravitational column for N2-CO2 and He-Ar gas mixtures separation
- An enhancement in series cascade control for non-minimum phase system
- Modelling and simulation of industrial multistage flash desalination process with exergetic and thermodynamic analysis. A case study of Azzour seawater desalination plant
- Development of a CFD-based simulation model and optimization of thermal diffusion column: application on noble gas separation
- A machine-learning reduced kinetic model for H2S thermal conversion process
- Design strategies for oxy-combustion power plant captured CO2 purification
- Energy-saving investigation of vacuum reactive distillation for the production of ethyl acetate
- Reducing total annual cost and CO2 emissions in batch distillation for separating ternary wide boiling mixtures using vapor recompression heat pump
