Cutting the cost of carbon capture: a case for carbon capture and utilization
Abstract
A significant part of the cost for carbon capture and storage (CCS) is related to the compression of captured CO2 to its supercritical state, at 150 bar and typically 99% purity. These stringent conditions may however not always be necessary for specific cases of carbon capture and utilization (CCU). In this manuscript, we investigate how much the parasitic energy of an adsorbent-based carbon capture process may be lowered by utilizing CO2 at 1 bar and adapting the final purity requirement for CO2 from 99% to 70% or 50%. We compare different CO2 sources: the flue gases of coal-fired or natural gas-fired power plants and ambient air. We evaluate the carbon capture performance of over 60 nanoporous materials and determine the influence of the initial and final CO2 purity on the parasitic energy of the carbon capture process. Moreover, we demonstrate the underlying principles of the parasitic energy minimization in more detail using the commercially available NaX zeolite. Finally, the calculated utilization cost of CO2 is compared with the reported prices for CO2 and published costs for CCS.
- Authors:
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- Ghent Univ., Zwijnaarde (Belgium)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzlerland)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies (CGS)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1387672
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001015
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Faraday Discussions
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 192; Related Information: CGS partners with University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Davis; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of Minnesota; National Energy Technology Laboratory; Texas A&M University; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6640
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; membrane; carbon capture; materials and chemistry by design; synthesis (novel materials); synthesis (self-assembly); synthesis (scalable processing)
Citation Formats
Joos, Lennart, Huck, Johanna M., Van Speybroeck, Veronique, and Smit, Berend. Cutting the cost of carbon capture: a case for carbon capture and utilization. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1039/C6FD00031B.
Joos, Lennart, Huck, Johanna M., Van Speybroeck, Veronique, & Smit, Berend. Cutting the cost of carbon capture: a case for carbon capture and utilization. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6FD00031B
Joos, Lennart, Huck, Johanna M., Van Speybroeck, Veronique, and Smit, Berend. Fri .
"Cutting the cost of carbon capture: a case for carbon capture and utilization". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6FD00031B. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1387672.
@article{osti_1387672,
title = {Cutting the cost of carbon capture: a case for carbon capture and utilization},
author = {Joos, Lennart and Huck, Johanna M. and Van Speybroeck, Veronique and Smit, Berend},
abstractNote = {A significant part of the cost for carbon capture and storage (CCS) is related to the compression of captured CO2 to its supercritical state, at 150 bar and typically 99% purity. These stringent conditions may however not always be necessary for specific cases of carbon capture and utilization (CCU). In this manuscript, we investigate how much the parasitic energy of an adsorbent-based carbon capture process may be lowered by utilizing CO2 at 1 bar and adapting the final purity requirement for CO2 from 99% to 70% or 50%. We compare different CO2 sources: the flue gases of coal-fired or natural gas-fired power plants and ambient air. We evaluate the carbon capture performance of over 60 nanoporous materials and determine the influence of the initial and final CO2 purity on the parasitic energy of the carbon capture process. Moreover, we demonstrate the underlying principles of the parasitic energy minimization in more detail using the commercially available NaX zeolite. Finally, the calculated utilization cost of CO2 is compared with the reported prices for CO2 and published costs for CCS.},
doi = {10.1039/C6FD00031B},
journal = {Faraday Discussions},
number = ,
volume = 192,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2016}
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