Carbon Dioxide Removal from Coal-Fired Power Plants

1994
ISBN: 978-0-7923-3269-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 233 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g

Reihe: Energy & Environment

1. 1. Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. 3 1. 1. 1. Emissions and concentrations of greenhouse gases 3 1. 1. 2. Impact of increasing greenhouse gases concentration 4 1. 2. Options to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 5 1. 2. 1. Carbon dioxide removal 8 1. 3. Scope of the thesis 10 1. 4. Outline of the thesis. 11 1. 4. 1. General evaluation method. 12 1. 4. 2. Some notes. 13 II. Simulation and optimization of carbon dioxide recovery from the flue gases of a coal-fired power plant using amines 14 Abstract 19 2. 1. Introduction. 20 2. 2. The chemical absorption process. 22 2. 2. 1. General process description. 22 2. 2. 2. Types of absorbent 23 2. 2. 3. Effects of flue gas contaminants 24 2. 3. Simulation of the scrubber in ASPEN PLUS. 25 2. 3. 1. ASPEN PLUS for flow sheet simulation 26 2. 3. 2. Simulation of the performance for the base-case design. 26 the scrubber. 29 2. 3. 3. Optimization of 2. 3. 4. Design and results 32 2. 3. 5. Discussion. 34 2. 4. Integration of the scrubber in the power plant 35 2. 4. 1. Power loss caused by steam extraction 36 2. 4. 2. Power saved by avoiding preheating boiler feed water. 38 2. 4. 3. Power consumption by the carbon dioxide scrubber. 38 2. 4. 4. Power consumption for carbon dioxide compression. 38 2. 4. 5. Calculation of plant efficiency losses ". 39 2. 5.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendriks, C.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energieverteilung, Stromnetze
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Introduction.- II Simulation and optimization of carbon dioxide recovery from the flue gases of a coal-fired power plant using amines.- III Carbon dioxide recovery from flue gases of a conventional coal fired power plant using polymer membranes.- IV Carbon dioxide recovery from flue gases of a conventional coal-fired power plant by low-temperature distillation.- V Carbon dioxide recovery from an integrated coal gasifier combined cycle plant using a shift reactor and a scrubber.- VI Carbon dioxide recovery from an integrated coal gasifier, combined cycle plant using membrane separation and a CO2 gas turbine.- VII Underground storage of carbon dioxide.- VIII Summary and conclusions.- IX References.