LAPSE:2019.1314
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LAPSE:2019.1314
Simulation-Based Design and Economic Evaluation of a Novel Internally Circulating Fluidized Bed Reactor for Power Production with Integrated CO2 Capture
Jan Hendrik Cloete, Mohammed N. Khan, Schalk Cloete, Shahriar Amini
December 10, 2019
Limiting global temperature rise to well below 2 °C according to the Paris climate accord will require accelerated development, scale-up, and commercialization of innovative and environmentally friendly reactor concepts. Simulation-based design can play a central role in achieving this goal by decreasing the number of costly and time-consuming experimental scale-up steps. To illustrate this approach, a multiscale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach was utilized in this study to simulate a novel internally circulating fluidized bed reactor (ICR) for power production with integrated CO2 capture on an industrial scale. These simulations were made computationally feasible by using closures in a filtered two-fluid model (fTFM) to model the effects of important subgrid multiphase structures. The CFD simulations provided valuable insight regarding ICR behavior, predicting that CO2 capture efficiencies and purities above 95% can be achieved, and proposing a reasonable reactor size. The results from the reactor simulations were then used as input for an economic evaluation of an ICR-based natural gas combined cycle power plant. The economic performance results showed that the ICR plant can achieve a CO2 avoidance cost as low as $58/ton. Future work will investigate additional firing after the ICR to reach the high inlet temperatures of modern gas turbines.
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Carbon Capture, chemical looping combustion, coarse-grid simulations, Computational Fluid Dynamics, filtered two-fluid model, fluidization, internally circulating reactor, power production, reactor design, techno-economics
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Cloete JH, Khan MN, Cloete S, Amini S. Simulation-Based Design and Economic Evaluation of a Novel Internally Circulating Fluidized Bed Reactor for Power Production with Integrated CO2 Capture. (2019). LAPSE:2019.1314
Author Affiliations
Cloete JH: Flow Technology Research Group, SINTEF Industry, 7465 Trondheim, Norway [ORCID]
Khan MN: Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway [ORCID]
Cloete S: Flow Technology Research Group, SINTEF Industry, 7465 Trondheim, Norway
Amini S: Flow Technology Research Group, SINTEF Industry, 7465 Trondheim, Norway; Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Processes
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7
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10
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E723
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2019
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2019-10-11
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2227-9717
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