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Combustion systems and power plants incorporating parallel carbon dioxide capture and sweep-based membrane separation units to remove carbon dioxide from combustion gases

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OSTI ID:1029263
Disclosed herein are combustion systems and power plants that incorporate sweep-based membrane separation units to remove carbon dioxide from combustion gases. In its most basic embodiment, the invention is a combustion system that includes three discrete units: a combustion unit, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is a power plant including a combustion unit, a power generation system, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In both of these embodiments, the carbon dioxide capture unit and the sweep-based membrane separation unit are configured to be operated in parallel, by which we mean that each unit is adapted to receive exhaust gases from the combustion unit without such gases first passing through the other unit.
Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV (United States); Membrane Technology & Research, Inc (Menlo Park, CA)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
NT0005312
Assignee:
Membrane Technology & Research, Inc (Menlo Park, CA)
Patent Number(s):
8,034,168
Application Number:
13/092,489
OSTI ID:
1029263
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English