Assessment of the US EPA’s Determination of the Role for CO2 Capture and Storage in New Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (14) ◽  
pp. 7723-7729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria R. Clark ◽  
Howard J. Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Co2 Capture And Storage ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Storage

Opportunities for CO2 Capture and Storage in Iranian Electricity Generation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farshid Zabihian ◽  
Alan S. Fung
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Pure Oxygen ◽  
Co2 Capture And Storage ◽  
And Storage

CO2 capture and storage (CCS) systems are technologies that can be used to reduce CO2 emissions by different industries where combustion is part of the process. A major problem of CCS system utilization in electricity generation industry is their high efficiency penalty in power plants. For different types of power plants fueled by oil, natural gas and coal, there are three main techniques that can be applied: • CO2 capture after combustion (post-combustion); • CO2 capture after concentration of flue gas by using pure oxygen in boilers and furnaces (oxy-fuel power plant); • CO2 capture before combustion (pre-combustion). More than 90% of electricity generation in Iran is based on fossil fuel power plants. Worldwide, electricity generation is responsible for 54% of GHG emissions. Thus, it is vital to reduce CO2 emission in fossil fuel-fired power plants. In this paper, it is shown that, by applying CO2 capture systems in power generation industry, very low CO2 emission intensity is possible but the energy and economic penalties are substantial. The analyses showed that for different technologies efficiency penalty could be as high as 25% and cost of electricity might increase by more than 65%. Two scenarios for Iranian electricity generation sector were investigated in this paper: installing CCS in the existing power plants with current technologies and replacing existing power plants by natural gas combined cycle plants equipped with CO2 capture system. The results revealed that the GHG intensity can be reduced from 610 to 79 gCO2eq/kWh in the first scenario and to 54 gCO2eq/kWh in the second scenario.

scholarly journals CO2 Capture and Storage from Fossil Fuel Power Plants

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dumitru Cebrucean ◽  
Viorica Cebrucean ◽  
Ioana Ionel
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Co2 Capture And Storage ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Fossil Fuel Power Plants

Life cycle cost assessment of biomass co-firing power plants with CO2 capture and storage considering multiple incentives

2021 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 105173
Author(s):  
Bo Yang ◽  
Yi-Ming Wei ◽  
Lan-Cui Liu ◽  
Yun-Bing Hou ◽  
Kun Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Cost Assessment ◽  
Co2 Capture And Storage ◽  
And Storage

scholarly journals On the operability of power plants with CO2 capture and storage

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1521-1526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Alie ◽  
Peter L. Douglas ◽  
John Davison
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Co2 Capture And Storage ◽  
And Storage

scholarly journals The importance of CO2 capture and storage: A geopolitical discussion

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Johnsson ◽  
Jan Kjärstad ◽  
Mikael Odenberger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Security Of Supply ◽  
Co2 Capture And Storage ◽  
And Storage

The CO2 capture and storage (CCS) technology is since more than ten years considered one of the key options for the future climate change mitigation. This paper discusses the implications for the further development of CCS, particularly with respect to climate change policy in an international geopolitics context. The rationale for developing CCS should be the over-abundance of fossil fuel reserves (and resources) in a climate change context. From a geopolitical point, it can be argued that the most important outcome from the successful commercialisation of CCS will be that fossil fuel-dependent economies with large fossil fuel resources will find it easier to comply with stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets (i.e. to attach a price to CO2 emissions). This should be of great importance since, from a geopolitical view, the curbing on GHG emissions cannot be isolated from security of supply and economic competition between regions. Thus, successful application of CCS may moderate geopolitical risks related to regional differences in the possibilities and thereby willingness to comply with large emission cuts. In Europe, application of CCS will enhance security of supply by fuel diversification from continued use of coal, especially domestic lignite. Introduction of CCS will also make possible negative emissions when using biomass as a fuel, i.e. in so called Biomass Energy CCS (BECCS). Yet, the development of BECCS relies on the successful development of fossil fuelled CCS since BECCS in itself is unlikely to be sufficient for establishing a cost efficient CCS infrastructure for transport and storage and because BECCS does not solve the problem with the abundant resources of fossil fuels. Results from research and development of capture, transport and storage of CO2 indicate that the barriers for commercialization of CCS should not be technical. Instead, the main barriers for implementation of CCS seem to be how to reach public acceptance, to reduce cost and to establish a high enough price on CO2 emissions. Failure to implement CCS will require that the global community, including Europe, agrees to almost immediately to start phasing out the use of fossil fuels, an agreement which seems rather unlikely, especially considering the abundant coal reserves in developing economies such as China and India.

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