TU Darmstadt / ULB / TUbiblio

Design of a 2 MWₜₕ Indirectly Heated Carbonate Looping Demonstration Facility at a Lime Plant in Germany

Greco-Coppi, Martin ; Dinkova, Anna ; Hofmann, Carina ; Walter, Diethelm ; Böge, Kyra ; Ströhle, Jochen ; Epple, Bernd (2024)
Design of a 2 MWₜₕ Indirectly Heated Carbonate Looping Demonstration Facility at a Lime Plant in Germany.
7th Post Combustion Capture Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (25.09.2023-27.09.2023)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00026537
Konferenzveröffentlichung, Zweitveröffentlichung, Verlagsversion

WarnungEs ist eine neuere Version dieses Eintrags verfügbar.

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Lime is crucial for many sectors of the economy including construction, agriculture, power generation, and manufacture. Lime plants are responsible of about 1.4 % of the global anthropogenic emissions of CO2. The majority of these emissions (over 60 %, according to IEA 2020), generated by the calcination of CaCO3 (i.e. process emissions), can only be avoided through efficient CO2 capture. To capture the CO2 process emissions, post-combustion and oxy-fuel combustion technologies have the potential to be deployed industrially. Among them, Carbonate Looping (CaL) is one of the most promising processes because of its competitive CO2 avoidance costs and low energy requirements (i.e. specific primary energy consumption per CO2 avoided, SPECCA) (e.g. Astolfi et al. 2019). It uses CaO as sorbent to bind CO2 in a carbonator. The CO2 is released in an oxy-fired calciner, operating at around 900 °C, exiting in a high purity stream. For the particular case of the cement and lime industry, the CaL process can exploit the synergies of the calcination; thus, increasing the overall economic and thermodynamic efficiency. To avoid the manifold penalties associated with oxy-firing the calciner (e.g. capital and operation cost of an air separation unit, contamination of CO2 stream, and increase in SPECCA), the heat can be provided indirectly through an external combustor. A proven way to do this is via heat pipes, which transfer heat by means of evaporation and condensation of a working fluid, e.g. sodium. The viability of this Indirectly Heated Carbonate Looping (IHCaL) process was demonstrated with more than 1000 hours of operation in a 300 kWth pilot facility at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Some of the most important milestones were: capturing CO2 from real combustion flue gas, with more than 85 % capture rate in the carbonator; recirculation of combustor flue gases into the carbonator; and fuelling of the combustor with propane, coal, and solid recovered fuel (SRF) (Hofmann et al. 2022; Reitz et al. 2016). Nevertheless, still some key elements have to be demonstrated in order to deploy the IHCaL technology into the industrial scale (cf. Greco-Coppi et al. 2021). This work presents the design of a 2 MWth demonstration facility with the main objective of driving the IHCaL forward into the full-scale application for the decarbonization of lime and cement production. Lime Plant Hönnetal, in Germany, was selected as the host facility. For the design of the demonstration plant, reactor and process simulations were performed. The sorbent reaction and deactivation models were developed using data from thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The reactor models were validated with the results from the pilot testing in the 300 kWth scale. These models were integrated in the Aspen PlusTM process models and used to optimize the design of the demonstration facility. The objectives of the demonstration plant are: (i) demonstrate the application of the IHCaL into an industrially relevant environment; (ii) optimize and validate the utilization of solid fuels (including SRF) in the combustor with capture rates higher than 90 %; (iii) deploy a solid/solid heat exchanger to recover heat between the solid circulating streams; and (iv) demonstrate the feasibility to operate the indirectly heated calciner in industrially-relevant conditions (CO2 recirculation and steam fluidization). Within this work, the methods for the scale-up will be discussed, the design of the plant will be presented, and the operating conditions will be reported. The construction of the demonstration plant may take place within a follow-up project to the ACT ANICA project, starting in the year 2024. In that case, the demonstration facility would be operative by 2026; thus, enabling a first IHCaL industrial application into a lime or cement plant by 2030.

Typ des Eintrags: Konferenzveröffentlichung
Erschienen: 2024
Autor(en): Greco-Coppi, Martin ; Dinkova, Anna ; Hofmann, Carina ; Walter, Diethelm ; Böge, Kyra ; Ströhle, Jochen ; Epple, Bernd
Art des Eintrags: Zweitveröffentlichung
Titel: Design of a 2 MWₜₕ Indirectly Heated Carbonate Looping Demonstration Facility at a Lime Plant in Germany
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 18 Januar 2024
Ort: Darmstadt
Publikationsdatum der Erstveröffentlichung: 27 September 2023
Ort der Erstveröffentlichung: Cheltenham
Veranstaltungstitel: 7th Post Combustion Capture Conference
Veranstaltungsort: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Veranstaltungsdatum: 25.09.2023-27.09.2023
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00026537
URL / URN: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/26537
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Lime is crucial for many sectors of the economy including construction, agriculture, power generation, and manufacture. Lime plants are responsible of about 1.4 % of the global anthropogenic emissions of CO2. The majority of these emissions (over 60 %, according to IEA 2020), generated by the calcination of CaCO3 (i.e. process emissions), can only be avoided through efficient CO2 capture. To capture the CO2 process emissions, post-combustion and oxy-fuel combustion technologies have the potential to be deployed industrially. Among them, Carbonate Looping (CaL) is one of the most promising processes because of its competitive CO2 avoidance costs and low energy requirements (i.e. specific primary energy consumption per CO2 avoided, SPECCA) (e.g. Astolfi et al. 2019). It uses CaO as sorbent to bind CO2 in a carbonator. The CO2 is released in an oxy-fired calciner, operating at around 900 °C, exiting in a high purity stream. For the particular case of the cement and lime industry, the CaL process can exploit the synergies of the calcination; thus, increasing the overall economic and thermodynamic efficiency. To avoid the manifold penalties associated with oxy-firing the calciner (e.g. capital and operation cost of an air separation unit, contamination of CO2 stream, and increase in SPECCA), the heat can be provided indirectly through an external combustor. A proven way to do this is via heat pipes, which transfer heat by means of evaporation and condensation of a working fluid, e.g. sodium. The viability of this Indirectly Heated Carbonate Looping (IHCaL) process was demonstrated with more than 1000 hours of operation in a 300 kWth pilot facility at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Some of the most important milestones were: capturing CO2 from real combustion flue gas, with more than 85 % capture rate in the carbonator; recirculation of combustor flue gases into the carbonator; and fuelling of the combustor with propane, coal, and solid recovered fuel (SRF) (Hofmann et al. 2022; Reitz et al. 2016). Nevertheless, still some key elements have to be demonstrated in order to deploy the IHCaL technology into the industrial scale (cf. Greco-Coppi et al. 2021). This work presents the design of a 2 MWth demonstration facility with the main objective of driving the IHCaL forward into the full-scale application for the decarbonization of lime and cement production. Lime Plant Hönnetal, in Germany, was selected as the host facility. For the design of the demonstration plant, reactor and process simulations were performed. The sorbent reaction and deactivation models were developed using data from thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The reactor models were validated with the results from the pilot testing in the 300 kWth scale. These models were integrated in the Aspen PlusTM process models and used to optimize the design of the demonstration facility. The objectives of the demonstration plant are: (i) demonstrate the application of the IHCaL into an industrially relevant environment; (ii) optimize and validate the utilization of solid fuels (including SRF) in the combustor with capture rates higher than 90 %; (iii) deploy a solid/solid heat exchanger to recover heat between the solid circulating streams; and (iv) demonstrate the feasibility to operate the indirectly heated calciner in industrially-relevant conditions (CO2 recirculation and steam fluidization). Within this work, the methods for the scale-up will be discussed, the design of the plant will be presented, and the operating conditions will be reported. The construction of the demonstration plant may take place within a follow-up project to the ACT ANICA project, starting in the year 2024. In that case, the demonstration facility would be operative by 2026; thus, enabling a first IHCaL industrial application into a lime or cement plant by 2030.

Freie Schlagworte: carbonate looping, demonstration plant, indirectly heated, solid recovered fuel (SRF), lime production
Status: Verlagsversion
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-265375
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 624 Ingenieurbau und Umwelttechnik
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 660 Technische Chemie
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau
16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau > Institut für Energiesysteme und Energietechnik (EST)
16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau > Institut für Energiesysteme und Energietechnik (EST) > Untersuchungen zur CO₂-Abscheidung
TU-Projekte: PTJ|03EE5025A|ACT-ANICA
Hinterlegungsdatum: 18 Jan 2024 13:12
Letzte Änderung: 19 Jan 2024 08:43
PPN:
Export:
Suche nach Titel in: TUfind oder in Google

Verfügbare Versionen dieses Eintrags

Frage zum Eintrag Frage zum Eintrag

Optionen (nur für Redakteure)
Redaktionelle Details anzeigen Redaktionelle Details anzeigen