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Title: Cost and Performance Baseline for Fossil Energy Plants Supplement: Sensitivity to CO2 Capture Rate in Coal-Fired Power Plants

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1480989· OSTI ID:1480989
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  1. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, VA (United States)
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The cost and performance of various plants designed to meet a range of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are evaluated in this report by varying the CO2 capture rate. The base cases for these designs are the supercritical (SC) pulverized coal (PC) plant from the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) report “Cost and Performance Baseline for Fossil Energy Plants, Volume 1a: Bituminous Coal (PC) and Natural Gas to Electricity, Revision 3” and the General Electric Energy (GEE) integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant in NETL’s report, “Cost and Performance Baseline for Fossil Energy Plants, Volume 1b: Bituminous Coal (IGCC) to Electricity, Revision 2 – Year Dollar Update.” The chosen SC PC plants were based on the Case B12B, differing only in the addition of a bypass flow path that allows for an appropriate portion of the flue gas stream exiting the desulfurization step to be directed towards the stack, which reduces the amount CO2 captured in the Cansolv process. The chosen IGCC plants were based on the Case B5B, differing by bypassing (either partially or entirely) the water gas shift reactors and thereby reducing the amount of CO2 captured in the Selexol process. The major components of the underlying CO2 capture technology in the plants were preserved with minimal modifications to the overall processes. The SC PC cases include up-to-date cost and performance information from recent vendor quotes whereas the IGCC performance and cost are based upon the older quotes used for the Revision 2 report, with standard adjustments made to update the costs to 2011 dollars.

Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
DOE Contract Number:
FE0004001
OSTI ID:
1480989
Report Number(s):
DOE/NETL-2015/1720
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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