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Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Study for a Carbon Capture Plant Retrofit to a Natural Gas-Fired Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plant (2x2x1 Duct-Fired 758-MWe Facility with F Class Turbines)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1836563· OSTI ID:1836563
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  1. Bechtel National, Inc., Reston, VA (United States); Bechtel National, Inc.
A comprehensive front-end engineering design (FEED) study has been undertaken by Bechtel National Inc. (Bechtel) for locating a post-combustion capture and compression (PCC) unit at Panda’s Sherman natural gas–combined cycle (NGCC) power plant in Sherman, Texas. This is described in the unredacted FEED Study report (Attachment 1) with all supporting documents, numbering over 150. The Study Report is publicly available. Sizing of the PCC plant is based on treating an amount of flue gas equivalent to that produced when generating 420 MW, which is approximately 68% of the total flue gas emitted by the NGCC power plant operating at guarantee condition with duct burners off. A reduced power plant capacity factor was used for sizing the PCC plant because the gas turbines at the site often operate at reduced load due to the high penetration of renewable power in the ERCOT region. The cost of carbon capture is primarily driven by capital cost (and therefore is highly sensitive to capacity factor). Sizing the capture unit so that when used it is nearly always operating at full capacity is critical to the economic viability of the proposed investment.
Research Organization:
Bechtel National, Inc., Reston, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Organization:
Electric Power Research Institute
DOE Contract Number:
FE0031848
OSTI ID:
1836563
Report Number(s):
DOE-BECHTEL-FE0031848-App.Volume2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English