LAPSE:2019.0631
Conference Presentation
LAPSE:2019.0631
Systems Design of a Petroleum Coke IGCC Power Plant: Technical, Economic, and Life cycle Perspectives
Ikenna Joseph Okeke, Thomas A Adams II
July 12, 2019
The petroleum coke gasification integrated gasification combined cycle power plant (petcoke-IGCC) is a promising avenue for disposal of the ever-growing amount of stockpiled petroleum coke. In this work, we present a novel techno-economic and life cycle assessment of the process operated with carbon capture and sequestration. The proposed petcoke-to-electricity plant is designed and simulated in Aspen Plus v10. The proposed power plant was compared against coal integrated gasification combined cycle (coal-IGCC) and supercritical pulverized coal power plants operated with carbon capture and sequestration. The results showed that although the efficiency of the coal-IGCC plant is higher than the petcoke-IGCC plant, the higher energy density of the petcoke and lower resource costs were such that the levelized cost of electricity of petcoke-IGCC was lower than coal-IGCC. Furthermore, the feed flow rate of petcoke to the petcoke-IGCC process is approximately 15% lower than the coal feed rate to coal-IGCC in order to produce the same net electric power. In addition, the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel depletion of the petroleum coke integrated gasification combined cycle power were around 43% and 45% lower than the supercritical pulverized coal power plants respectively. Overall, the proposed petcoke-IGCC power plant showed to be a feasible avenue by which an environmentally safe “end of life” of petroleum coke can be achieved.
Keywords
Carbon Dioxide Capture, Electricity, Gasification, IGCC, Life Cycle Analysis, Petroleum Coke
Suggested Citation
Okeke IJ, Adams TA II. Systems Design of a Petroleum Coke IGCC Power Plant: Technical, Economic, and Life cycle Perspectives. (2019). LAPSE:2019.0631
Author Affiliations
Okeke IJ: McMaster University
Adams TA II: McMaster University [ORCID] [Google Scholar]
[Login] to see author email addresses.
Conference Title
Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design
Conference Place
Colorado
Year
2019
Publication Date
2019-07-17
Version Comments
Original Submission
Download
Files
[Download 1v1.pdf] (1.2 MB)
Jul 12, 2019
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Meta
Record Statistics
Record Views
903
Version History
[v1] (Original Submission)
Jul 12, 2019
 
Verified by curator on
Jul 17, 2019
This Version Number
v1
Citations
Most Recent
This Version
URL Here
https://psecommunity.org/LAPSE:2019.0631
 
Original Submitter
iokeke