Title
Total chain dynamical assessment with an integrated model of a Post Combustion Capture Plant at a Pulverized Coal Plant and CO2 downstream infrastructure
Author
de Kler, R.C.F.
van de Haar, A.M.
Publication year
2013
Abstract
The application of Post Combustion Capture has a significant advantage for mitigating the anthropogenic greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, in comparison to other capture technologies, since it is a so called “End of the Pipe” retrofit and therefore potentially applicable to existing power plants. With a fast changing power market and a significant portion of renewable energy, the operational flexibility is becoming imperative aspect for power plants. It is worth noting that the value of a power plants will be increasingly determined by its operational capabilities in providing swing power and high commercial availability and reliability. The application of post combustion capture technology might provide an additional operational flexibility by running the capture unit at different part load or on/off. Nevertheless there is absence of operational experience with a post combustion capture technology at a scale of 200 MWe (equivalents) which is approx. 1,2 Mton/year of CO2 captured. Advanced dynamic simulation will provide more insight in operational flexibility and bottlenecks and will cover the lack of knowledge to properly asses the significant scale-up step of Post Combustion Capture technology. In view of the entire chain, operational constraints from the downstream CO2 infrastructure and power plant integration (e.g. steam) are for the demonstration projects top ranked risk (uncertainty) which must be mitigated.
Subject
TS - Technical Sciences
Fluid Mechanics Chemistry & Energetics
Industrial Innovation
Dynamic simulation
Post combustion capture
GTR - Gas Treatment
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TNO identifier
491762
Source
Conference Proceedings of the 7th Trondheim CCS Conference, 4-6 June, 2013, Trondheim, Norway
Document type
conference paper