Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) developed by coupling a Pressurised Chemical Looping combustor with a turbo expander: How to optimize plant efficiency
Reviewartikel, 2022

Carbon Capture and Storage is a technology of paramount importance for the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and the Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Climate Action). The European Union is moving rapidly towards low carbon technologies, for instance via the Energy Union Strategy. Coupling biofuels and carbon capture and storage to decarbonize the power and the industrial sector can be done through the development of BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage). Chemical Looping combustion is one of the cheapest way to capture CO2. A Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) plant can be coupled with a turbo expander to convert energy to power, but it has to work in pressurised conditions. The effect of pressure on the chemical reactions and on fluidised bed hydrodynamics, at the moment, is not completely clear. The aim of this review is to summarize the most important highlights in this field and also provide an original method to optimize power plant efficiency. The main objective of our research is that to design a pressurised Chemical Looping Combustion plant which can be coupled to a turbo expander. To achieve this we need to start from the characteristics of the turbo expander itself (eg. the Turbine Inlet Temperature and the compression ratio) and then design the chemical looping combustor with a top down approach. Once the air and the fuel reactor have been dimensioned and the oxygen carrier inventory and circulation rate have been identified, the paper proposes a final optimization procedure based on two energy balances applied to the two reactors. The results of this work propose an optimization methodology and guidelines to be used for the design of pressurised chemical looping reactors to be coupled with turbo expanders for the production of power with carbon negative emissions.

Turbo expanders

Shrinking core model

Reaction kinetics

Chemical Looping Combustion

Computational Fluid Dynamic

Författare

Pietro Bartocci

CSIC - Instituto de Carboquimica (ICB)

Alberto Abad

CSIC - Instituto de Carboquimica (ICB)

Tobias Mattisson

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Energiteknik

Arturo Cabello

CSIC - Instituto de Carboquimica (ICB)

Margarita de las Obras Loscertales

CSIC - Instituto de Carboquimica (ICB)

Teresa Mendiara Negredo

CSIC - Instituto de Carboquimica (ICB)

Mauro Zampilli

Universita degli Studi di Perugia

Andrea Taiana

Baker Hughes, a GE company

Angela Serra

Baker Hughes, a GE company

Inmaculada Arauzo

Universidad de Zaragoza

Cristobal Cortes

Universidad de Zaragoza

Liang Wang

SINTEF Energi

Øyvind Skreiberg

SINTEF Energi

Haiping Yang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Qing Yang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Wang Lu

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Yingquan Chen

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Francesco Fantozzi

Universita degli Studi di Perugia

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

1364-0321 (ISSN) 18790690 (eISSN)

Vol. 169 112851

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Ämneskategorier

Energiteknik

Kemiska processer

Energisystem

Styrkeområden

Energi

DOI

10.1016/j.rser.2022.112851

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