Launch of the European Octavius Research Project
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France - Thursday, March 22nd 2012 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On 13 and 14 March this year, the Octavius project
dedicated to post-combustion CO2 capture has been launched at IFPEN
(France). The main challenge of the project is to significantly increase
the energy efficiency of the capture technologies in order to reduce
its costs.
The objectives are as follows:
to prepare for the first CO2 capture and storage (CCS) demonstrators
on a thermal power plant scale, implementing 1rst generation CO2
capture processes using amine-type solvents. Three CO2 capture pilot
units – the Cato pilot unit in Maasvlakte (Netherlands), the Enel pilot
unit in Brindisi (Italy) and the EnBW pilot unit in Heilbronn (Germany) –
will be used to test the operability and flexibility of 1rst generation
processes.
to demonstrate the DMXTM 2nd generation post-combustion capture
process resulting from IFPEN research on an industrial scale. This
demonstration will be conducted on the Enel pilot unit, capable of
capturing up to 2.25 tCO2/h on coal combustion flue gases.
Coordinated by IFPEN, the project brings together 16 other partners:
TNO, Sintef, NTNU, Ineris, DTU, TUHH, E.ON, EnBW, Doosan Power Systems,
Enel, Laborelec (GDFSuez), EDF, Prosernat,TIPS, EcoMetrix and Eskom.
Scheduled to last 5 years, Octavius has a budget of €13.5 million, €8
million of which will be provided by the European Commission.
1rst generation capture processes use alkanolamines. Commercially
available, alkanolamine based processes have been proposed for the ROAD
and Porto Tolle CCS demonstration projects. The Octavius project will
provide the most recent information required for full-scale
implementation of these processes, with respect to atmospheric
emissions, operability, flexibility and integration.
The DMXTM process developed by IFPEN uses a demixing solvent capable of
cutting the energy consumption for solvent regeneration by almost 40%,
reducing it until 2.3 GJ per metric ton of CO2 captured, in comparison
with 3.7 GJ/tCO2 for a standard process using a solution containing 30%
by weight of MonoEthanolAmine. The first technical and economic
assessments have demonstrated that the DMXTM method applied to CO2
capture on a coal-fired thermal power plant reduces the energy penalty
by 2 points, thereby cutting the costs associated with CO2 capture by
20%.
Contacts
Project coordinator:
IFPEN
Paul Broutin, +33 (0)4 37 70 26 97
paul.broutin@ifpen.fr
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