Oko, E., Wang, M. and Joel, A. S. (2017) Current status and future development of solvent-based carbon capture. International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, 4 (1). pp. 5-14. ISSN 2095-8293
Abstract
Solvent-based carbon capture is the most commercially-ready technology for economically and sustainably reaching carbon emission reduction targets in the power sector. Globally, the technology has been deployed to deal with flue gases from large scale power plants and different carbon-intensive industries. The success of the technology is due to significant R&D activities on the process development and decades of industrial experience on acid gas removal processes from gaseous mixtures. In this paper, current status of PCC based on chemical absorption—commercial deployment and demonstration projects, analysis of different solvents and process configurations—is reviewed. Although some successes have been recorded in developing this technology, its commercialization has been generally slow as evidenced in the cancellation of high profile projects across the world. This is partly due to the huge cost burden of the technology and unpredictable government policies. Different research directions, namely new process development involving process intensification, new solvent development and a combination of both, are discussed in this paper as possible pathways for reducing the huge cost of the technology.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Post-combustion CO2 capture (PCC); Chemical absorption; Solvents; Process intensification |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) EP/N024672/1 EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 ROLINCAP ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) EP/M001458/2 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2017 15:29 |
Last Modified: | 10 Apr 2017 15:29 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40789-017-0159-0 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SpringerOpen and Springer Verlag (Germany) and China Coal Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s40789-017-0159-0 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114840 |