Fe 0007395
Fe 0007395
Fe 0007395
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Albany, OR • Fairbanks, AK • Morgantown, WV • Pittsburgh, PA • Sugar Land, TX DE-FE0007395
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stage stripping process for solvent regeneration and a heat- Objectives
integrated cooling tower system that recovers waste energy
from the carbon capture platform. The two-stage stripping The objectives of the project are to (1) develop and deploy a
process will increase solvent working capacity by providing novel heat integration scheme demonstrating the capability to
a secondary air stripping column following the conventional integrate waste heat from the carbon capture platform to limit
steam stripping column. The air stripping stream will be sent the reduction in overall power plant efficiency, (2) determine
to the boiler as combustion air to increase the CO2 content in the performance of the H3-1 advanced solvent, and (3) collect
the flue gas exiting the boiler. The integrated cooling tower the necessary information on mass and energy balances, solvent
system will use a liquid desiccant to dry the cooling tower air degradation (rate and products), and corrosion to provide a full
and waste heat to dry the liquid desiccant. The overall effect techno-economic and environmental, health, and safety (EH&S)
will be improved power plant cooling tower and steam turbine analysis at a 550 MWe commercial-scale level.
efficiency.
The project will be located at LG&E and KU Services Company’s Planned Activities
E.W. Brown Generating Station, located near Harrodsburg,
Kentucky. The design, start-up, and commissioning of the • Perform an updated techno-economic analysis of the final
test facility will be performed with a generic 30 wt% MEA process design, based on a 550 MWe power plant.
solvent to obtain baseline data for comparison with other
proprietary solvents to be tested in the program. Testing will • Design, fabricate, and install the 0.7 MWe modular
be conducted on two proprietary solvents: Hitachi’s advance slipstream facility.
amine solvent (H3-1), and a proprietary solvent developed by • Commission and shakedown the facility with a baseline
the CAER as an alternative solvent. Parametric testing and long- 30 wt% MEA solvent.
term verification campaigns will be conducted for each of the
solvents. Corrosion evaluation and solvent degradation studies • Conduct parametric and verification investigations using
will be conducted concurrently with the verification runs. The two proprietary solvents.
potential heat integration, solvent and water management, and
CO2 capture system stability and operability will be the main • Conduct a system dynamics load-following study, a solvent
focal points. Process modeling will be performed to optimize degradation study, and a materials corrosion study.
the post-combustion CO2 capture system, determine power
plant integration strategies, and conduct sensitivity analyses. • Perform system and economic analyses of the proposed
The results of the modeling studies will be used to complete technology using various steam extraction and heat
an economic analysis of the process to determine its capital recovery configurations, and compression technologies.
and operating costs as well as to estimate the cost of electricity • Conduct transient tests to quantify the ability of the system
(COE) as compared to the reference MEA process. to follow the load demand of the power station.
Accomplishments
• Kick-off meeting conducted in October 2011.
Benefits
The novel concepts and advanced solvent used in this project
show promise of improving the overall plant efficiency when
integrated with a CO2 capture system, and can be utilized to
retrofit existing coal-fired power plants. The knowledge gained
from this project on various aspects such as material coatings,
process simplification/optimization, system compatibility
CAER’s three-process CO2 capture technology. and operability, solvent degradation and secondary environ-
mental impact, water management and potential heat
integration can potentially be applied to future commercial
Primary Project Goal applications directed toward achieving DOE’s current goals for
post-combustion CO2 capture.
The project goal is to design, fabricate, install, and test a modular
0.7 MWe CO2 capture system utilizing the advanced solvent
process with heat integration on a slipstream of flue gas from a
coal-fired power plant to show the potential to meet DOE’s target
of no more than a 35 percent increase in the COE while capturing
at least 90 percent of the CO2 released during the combustion of
fossil fuels in existing coal-fired power plants.
FE0007395 May 2012