U.S. Department of Energy National Carbon Capture Center, Supporting Technology Scale-up and International Collaboration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Morton ◽  
Michele Corser ◽  
Justin Anthony
ChemistryOpen ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 659-659
Author(s):  
Alex Durkin ◽  
Ivan Taptygin ◽  
Qingyuan Kong ◽  
Mohamad F. M. Gunam Resul ◽  
Abdul Rehman ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ben Gardner ◽  
Xiaofeng Guan ◽  
Ruth Ann Martin ◽  
Jack Spain

The Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) is an engineering scale demonstration of advanced coal-fired power systems and high-temperature, high-pressure gas filtration systems. The PSDF was designed at sufficient scale so that advanced power systems and components can be tested in an integrated fashion to provide data for commercial scale-up. The PSDF is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute, Southern Company Services, Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR), Siemens-Westinghouse, and Peabody Energy. Gasification at the PSDF is based on KBR’s Transport Gasifier, which is an advanced circulating fluidized-bed gasifier. Hot gas filtration is a critical process in the gasification system to clean up the particulate matter before the synthesis gas (syngas) is fed to the turbine. A Siemens-Westinghouse particulate control device (PCD) is used for syngas cleanup. The PCD contains 91 candle-style filter elements. More than twenty types of filter elements, categorized as monolithic ceramic, composite ceramic, sintered-metal powder, and sintered-metal fiber, have been tested in the gasification environment at the PSDF. Up to January 2005, the longest exposure time for individual filters has been 5783 hours. The particulate loading in the clean syngas during most stable operating periods has been demonstrated to be consistently below 0.1 ppmw, which is the lower detection limit of Southern Research Institute’s sampling system. Safeguard devices (failsafes) have also been tested and developed at the PSDF. Failsafes are used to block the particulate leaking through the PCD in the case of filter element failure to eliminate damage to the turbine. Demonstration of reliable failsafes is a critical factor to the hot gas filtration technology. Several types of currently available failsafes and PSDF-developed failsafes have been tested in the PCD with gasification ash injection to simulate filter element leakage. A typical failsafe was also tested in a device equipped with a quick-open mechanism to simulate a complete filter failure during a test run operation. The testing showed promising results for certain types of failsafes. Further failsafe testing and better understanding of turbine requirements for particulate loading are needed to evaluate the PCD performance and increase readiness towards commercialization of the technology.


Author(s):  
Ben Lacy ◽  
Willy Ziminsky ◽  
John Lipinski ◽  
Bala Varatharajan ◽  
Ertan Yilmaz ◽  
...  

Progress on the joint GE Energy/US Department of Energy (DOE) High Hydrogen Turbine Program is presented. A summary of GE’s current integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) experience is provided. The Phase I approach is discussed with selected results included. The program follows the well-established GE approach to introducing new technology through: fundamental laboratory testing and analysis; subscale demonstration; full-scale development; full-scale verification. Advancements towards the ultimate goal of ultralow NOx emissions with coal derived pre-combustion carbon capture fuels are presented. Feasibility of diluent-free low NOx combustion is demonstrated experimentally at gas turbine conditions with representative fuel compositions. Phase II design challenges are highlighted within the framework of Phase I results.


Author(s):  
J. Jeffrey Moore ◽  
Hector Delgado ◽  
Timothy Allison

In order to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere, significant progress has been made in developing technology to sequester CO2 from power plants and other major producers of greenhouse gas emissions. The compression of the captured carbon dioxide stream requires a sizeable amount of power, which impacts plant availability, capital expenditures and operational cost. Preliminary analysis has estimated that the CO2 compression process reduces the plant efficiency by 8% to 12% for a typical power plant. The goal of the present research is to reduce this penalty through development of novel compression and pumping processes. The research supports the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) objectives of reducing the energy requirements for carbon capture and sequestration in electrical power production. The primary objective of this study is to boost the pressure of CO2 to pipeline pressures with the minimal amount of energy required. Previous thermodynamic analysis identified optimum processes for pressure rise in both liquid and gaseous states. At elevated pressures, CO2 assumes a liquid state at moderate temperatures. This liquefaction can be achieved through commercially available refrigeration schemes. However, liquid CO2 turbopumps of the size and pressure needed for a typical power plant were not available. This paper describes the design, construction, and qualification testing of a 150 bar cryogenic turbopump. Unique characteristics of liquid CO2 will be discussed.


Author(s):  
Marco Gazzino ◽  
Giovanni Riccio ◽  
Nicola Rossi ◽  
Giancarlo Benelli

Among possible options to capture carbon dioxide, pressurised oxy-fuel combustion is a promising one. Accordingly, Enel teamed with Itea and Enea to develop a pressurised oxy-combustion technology. Currently, extensive tests have been carried out at 4 bar on a 5 MWt facility based in Gioia del Colle (Southern Italy). By starting from the know-how gained on that scale, Enel planned to build by 2010 an experimental 48 MWt demo-plant, based on the same pressurised combustion process introduced above. This will be the necessary intermediate step for the further scale-up towards a zero emission plant of industrial scale. This paper is the prosecution of a previous publication presenting the process design and energy analysis of a power cycle integrating the developed pressurised oxy-coal combustion technology with a Rankine cycle including carbon capture. After having briefly presented the pressurised oxycombustion project carried out at Enel, the paper focuses on technology issues related to the proposed cycle and the related process integration, with respect to main components.


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