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Energy, exergy, economic and environmental (4E) analysis of a cryogenic carbon purification unit with membrane for oxyfuel cement plant flue gas

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  • Costa, Alexis
  • Coppitters, Diederik
  • Dubois, Lionel
  • Contino, Francesco
  • Thomas, Diane
  • De Weireld, Guy

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The carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) process chain is subject to increasing interest, and its overwhelming implementation on the industrial scale appears to be one of the main ways to reduce CO2 emissions. In this context, the optimisation of a CO2 purification process for oxy-combustion cement plant flue gases is proposed. This optimisation is based on a multidimensional study on the energy, exergy, economy, and environmental impacts of the process. The results of the optimisations carried out show that it is more favourable to increase the CO2 recovery above 90%, from an energy, exergy and economic point of view. The analysis of the evolution of the capture cost as a function of the CO2 recovery shows that for a given carbon tax, there is a minimum for the total cost which includes the sum of the carbon tax contributions for the uncaptured CO2 and the capture cost. As the unit uses only electrical energy, the cost and the electricity generation will directly impact the capture cost as well as the overall balance in terms of CO2 avoided. As the electricity price increases from 50 to 250 €/MWh, the CO2 capture cost increases by almost 250%. An analysis of the parameter uncertainties allows to observe their impacts on the results, and to define a standard deviation from the optimised points and show the robustness of these. Considering the technical parametric uncertainties, the standard deviation on the electrical consumption (3.65 kWh/tCO2), CO2 recovery (0.09%) and exergy efficiency (0.92%) is limited.

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  • Costa, Alexis & Coppitters, Diederik & Dubois, Lionel & Contino, Francesco & Thomas, Diane & De Weireld, Guy, 2024. "Energy, exergy, economic and environmental (4E) analysis of a cryogenic carbon purification unit with membrane for oxyfuel cement plant flue gas," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 357(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:357:y:2024:i:c:s0306261923017956
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122431
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