Background
Negative emissions are required to achieve net zero to compensate for hard to abate industries. Reducing CO2 capture costs can drive the technology to be deployed in biomass based industries to achieve negative CO2 emissions. Due to the slow rate of reaction of traditional CO2 capture solvents, the size of the packed towers is huge resulting in high CAPEX, OPEX and impact of LCOE. Rotating packed bed (RPB) offers next generation process intensified technology to address this challenge.
Associated Outputs
Dr. Muhammad Akram
Principal Investigator
University of Sheffield
Project Team
University of Sheffield:
Prof. Mohamed Pourkashanian
Prof. Lin Ma
Dr. Kris Milkowski
Maria Fernanda Rojas-Michaga
Dr. Janos Szuhanszki
Newcastle University:
Dr. Jonathan Lee
Carbon Clean:
Dr. James Hall
Aim
The main aim of the project is to demonstrate negative CO2 emissions offered by BECCS at the Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC) using a next generation Process Intensified (PI) Rotating packed bed CO2 capture plant integrated with grate biomass boiler (240 kWth). Flue gas from the boiler will be fed to the capture plant. Two solvents, Monoethanolamine (MEA) and a proprietary solvent (APBS-CDRMax®) from Carbon Clean, will be compared for energy and environmental performance (120 hrs with each solvent). Comprehensive analysis will be performed on biomass and solvent using ICP-OES for entrained metal aerosol emissions, Dekati ELPI+ for particulate analysis, Gasmet FTIR for gaseous compositions and Mettler Toledo auto-titrator for solvent composition at various locations.
More Detail
This project will test the performance of 1 TPD CO2 capture capacity rotating packed bed capture plant with flue gas generated by 240kWth biomass boiler. The plant is fully integrated with the combustion and synthetic gas make up facilities. The process optimisation will be performed by varying operational conditions such as rotational speed, liquid to gas ratio, steam temperature, stripper pressure etc. Process modelling of the PRB capture plant will be performed using Aspen for process optimisation. Moreover, CFD modelling will establish the optimum flow dynamics of the liquid and gas streams.
Meet the Team
Prof. Mohamed Pourkashanian
Prof. Mohamed Pourkashanian
University of Sheffield
Prof. Lin Ma
Prof. Lin Ma
University of Sheffield
Dr. Kris Milkowski
Dr. Kris Milkowski
University of Sheffield
Maria Fernanda Rojas-Michaga
Maria Fernanda Rojas-Michaga
University of Sheffield
Dr. Janos Szuhanszki
Dr. Janos Szuhanszki
University of Sheffield
Dr. Jonathan Lee
Dr. Jonathan Lee
Newcastle University
Dr. James Hall
Dr. James Hall
Head of research, Carbon Clean
Prof. Mohamed Pourkashanian
Prof. Mohamed Pourkashanian
University of Sheffield
Prof. Lin Ma
Prof. Lin Ma
University of Sheffield
Dr. Kris Milkowski
Dr. Kris Milkowski
University of Sheffield
Maria Fernanda Rojas-Michaga
Maria Fernanda Rojas-Michaga
University of Sheffield
Dr. Janos Szuhanszki
Dr. Janos Szuhanszki
University of Sheffield
Dr. Jonathan Lee
Dr. Jonathan Lee
Newcastle University
Dr. James Hall
Dr. James Hall
Head of research, Carbon Clean
Planned Outputs
Data will be published in leading CO2 capture peer reviewed journals and conference i.e. Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, GHGT conference
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