Advancements in ship-based carbon capture technology on board of LNG-fuelled ships

The International Maritime Organization has set clear objectives towards drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions the coming decades in the maritime sector. While different ways to reduce emissions are already proposed, these are not expected to generate high CO2 abatement rates (in the case of fuel saving measures) or to be available and...

Update on post-combustion carbon capture and storage on LNG fuelled vessels

The maritime industry has set clear objectives towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. Ship based carbon capture (SBCC) could play a large role in reducing these emissions on the short term. This study gives an update on the work that has been conducted towards carbon capture and storage on LNG fuelled vessels. This is...

Solid oxide cell technology development at TNO

Solid Oxide Cell Technology Development at TNO

Post-combustion Carbon Capture and Storage on LNG Fuelled Ships

Post-combustion CO2 capture by absorption is a mature technology that has been implemented in many industrial applications to decrease CO2 emissions from large point sources. As demonstrated in this work, the CO2 capture process can be implemented onboard as a retrofit technology, thus enabling timely implementation; a key element for the...

Small Scale Regenerative Desulfurization of Biogas

The application of small scale biogas digesters to supply biogas to households in developing countries is well established. The biogas is used for different applications, amongst other cooking. Generally, no further treatment of the biogas is applied. Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is present in varying concentrations within the biogas. H2S has negative...

Development of next generation biogas cleaning and upgrading technology: Demonstration of terpene removal

Terpenes are a problem for biogas producers, as grid owners will refuse entry to the natural gas grid when more than a few ppm terpenes are detected in the renewable natural gas injected. The problems are related to the integrity of pipelines, safety at the upgrading plant and the fact that terpenes mask the odour of the standard added...

Analysis of process configurations for CO2 capture by precipitating amino acid solvents

Precipitating amino acid solvents are an alternative to conventional amine scrubbing for CO2 capture from flue gas. Process operation with these solvents leads to the formation of precipitates during absorption that need to be re-dissolved prior to desorption of CO2. The process configuration is crucial for the successful application of these...

Regenerative desulfurization of biogas

Regenerative desulfurization of biogas

Precipitating amino acid solvents for CO2 capture: Opportunities to reduce costs in post combustion capture

Post-combustion CO2 capture based on absorption and thermal desorption is considered a suitable technology for carbon abatement in fossil fuelled power plants. The economic viability of post-combustion capture has been widely studied. The major drawbacks of this technology are the efficiency penalties and high operating cost related to solvent...

Conceptual design of a novel CO2 capture process based on precipitating amino acid solvents

Amino acid salt based solvents can be used for CO2 removal from flue gas in a conventional absorption-thermal desorption process. Recently, new process concepts have been developed based on the precipitation of the amino acid zwitterion species during the absorption of CO2. In this work, a new concept is introduced which requires the...

New process concepts for CO2 capture based on precipitating amino acids

This work summarises the results of the design of novel separation processes for CO2 removal from flue gas based on precipitating amino acid solvents. The processes here described (DECAB, DECAB Plus and pH-swing) use a combination of enhanced CO2 absorption ( ) and / or enhanced CO2 desorption (based on pH-shift), which contribute substantially...

Demonstration of CO2 capture for flue gas of a glass factory

In the project "Connecting CO2 the next step - Carbon Capture and Use", two pilot demonstrations with a post-combustion CO2 capture setup of TNO were carried out at Ardagh Glass (Moerdijk) and Zeeland Refinery (Vlissingen). This article describes the demonstration at Ardagh, but the demonstration at Zeeland Refinery showed comparable results....

Adsorption and breakthrough performance of carbon-coated ceramic monoliths at low concentration of n-butane

Carbon-coated ceramic monoliths have been studied for the dynamic adsorption of low-concentration n-butane. They exhibit a very sharp breakthrough performance, especially in the low-concentration regime, that illustrates the better breakthrough performance of monoliths with respect to shallow carbon packed beds. The low pressure drop of the...

Modelling sorption and diffusion in activated carbon: A novel low pressure pulse-response technique

A novel low pressure pulse-response technique, referred to as Multitrack, was applied for the simultaneous determination of the adsorption and diffusion parameters of gases in porous materials in a packed bed. Measurements were performed on two different carbons, Kureha and Sorbonorit B3, in the temperature range between 473 and 700 K. The...

Prediction of breakthrough curves of activated carbon based sorption systems: From elementary steps to process design.