Overview of the U.S. DOE’s Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative for Accelerating the Commercialization of CCS Technology

Conference · Tue May 31 04:00:00 EDT 2011

OSTI ID:1324931

Miller, David; Syamlal, Madhava; Meza, Juan; Brown, D. L.; Fox, M. M.; Khaleel, Mohammad A.; Cottrell, Roger K.; Kress, J. D.; Sun, Xin; Sundaresan, Sankaran; Sahinidis, Nikolaos V.; Zitney, Stephen E.; Agarwal, Deborah A.; Tong, Charles; Lin, Guang; Letellier, Bruce; Engel, David W.; Calafiura, P.; Richards, G. A.; Shinn, Joseph H.

The Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) is a partnership among national laboratories, industry and academic institutions that will develop and deploy state-of-theart computational modeling and simulation tools to accelerate the commercialization of carbon capture technologies from discovery to development, demonstration, and ultimately the widespread deployment to hundreds of power plants. The CCSI Toolset will provide end users in industry with a comprehensive, integrated suite of scientifically validated models with uncertainty quantification, optimization, risk analysis and decision making capabilities. The CCSI Toolset will incorporate commercial and open-source software currently in use by industry and will also develop new software tools as necessary to fill technology gaps identified during execution of the project. The CCSI Toolset will (1) enable promising concepts to be more quickly identified through rapid computational screening of devices and processes; (2) reduce the time to design and troubleshoot new devices and processes; (3) quantify the technical risk in taking technology from laboratory-scale to commercial-scale; and (4) stabilize deployment costs more quickly by replacing some of the physical operational tests with a virtual power plant.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1324931
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-79707; AA3030100
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English