Front End Engineering Design of Linde-BASF Advanced Post-Combustion CO₂ Capture Technology at a Southern Company Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant (Final Scientific/Technical Report)

Technical Report · Fri Sep 30 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1890156· OSTI ID:1890156

Lunsford, Landon ^[1]; Krishnamurthy, Krish ^[2]; Jarmus, Dirk ^[3]; Nichols, John ^[4]; Carroll, John ^[5]; Palmer, Ann ^[5]; Brown, Carson ^[5]; Powell, Shane ^[5]; Chu, Ben ^[5]

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1. Southern Company Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL (United States); Southern Company Services, Inc.
2. Linde, Inc. (United States)
3. Linde Engineering Dresden (Germany)
4. BASF, Ludwigshafen (Germany)
5. Southern Company Services, Birmingham, AL (United States)

This document details the execution of Cooperative Agreement DE-FE0031847, “Front End Engineering Design of Linde-BASF Advanced Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Capture Technology at a Southern Company Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant” during the period of 10/1/2019 to 6/30/2022. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Southern Company Services, Inc. (SCS) was the prime recipient and led the project team. Other members of the project team included Linde, Inc. (Linde), Linde Engineering – Dresden (LED), and BASF. The overall goal of the project was to complete a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for installing the Linde-BASF post-combustion capture (PCC) technology at an existing domestic natural gas-fired combined cycle (NGCC) power plant within Southern Company’s portfolio of assets. The CO₂ capture plant was to be of commercial scale (at least 375 MWe) and include process units for pre-conditioning of the flue gas system, the CO₂ capture plant island, storage vessels, the CO₂ compression train, and any necessary components for integration into the NGCC plant. Mississippi Power’s Plant Daniel Unit #4 was chosen as the host site for the FEED with the target of capturing 90% of CO₂ emissions from the existing combustion turbines. The information produced by the FEED was used to develop a cost estimate of +/- 15% accuracy. Capital costs, excluding financing, are estimated at approximately $$\$$752$ million dollars (2021). The execution of a project based on this FEED study has an estimated duration of almost five years.

• Research Organization: Southern Company Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
• DOE Contract Number: FE0031847
• OSTI ID: 1890156
• Report Number(s): DOE-SCS-31847
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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