Techno-economic performance of state of the art, highly integrated oxyfuel technology for low-CO2 coal-fired electricity production (word count: 999) (original) (raw)

2016

This paper describes the techno-economic performance of state of the art (2015) oxyfuel technology for an advanced super critical coal power plant and compares the results to postcombustion capture with standard MEA technology. The purpose of this work is to create a 2015 timestamp for coal oxy-combustion, using the most advanced technology that could be purchased today, thereby adding to the existing body of studies that typically use less sophisticated process configurations (e.g. Ciferno et al. 2008; IEAGHG 2010; Mancuso and Ferrari 2014), but without speculating on further technology development in the coming decades (e.g. Santos 2014). The coal power plant in this study is based on the design suggested by the European Benchmarking Task Force (Cesar 2011). It contains an advanced supercritical steam cycle, and the environmental controls to operate under European emission regulations (Figure 1). The design of the flue gas cleaning and recycle section includes a hot ESP for partic...