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NEW EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS TO CAPTURE CO2 FROM THE FLUES GASES
GENERATED BY THERMAL POWER PLANTS.
CESCOT
FP7 – ENERGY – 2011 – 2
ENERGY.2011.5&6.2-1: Optimizing the integration of CO2 capture into power
plants
Collaborative Project with a predominant demonstration component
CO2 Capture, power plant,
More than 70% of the today electric power is produced by thermal power plants (TPP)
which use carbon based fuel for generating the thermal power. The fuel burning
processes are accompanied by the generation of large quantities of solid and gaseous
pollutants contained in the flue gases.
The current processes to capture and entrap the pollutants from the burnt-up gases are
sequential.
In a first step, the solid pollutants are entrapped and next, in a sequence of steps in
specialized additional installations, the gaseous pollutants such as CO2, SO2, NOx, etc.
For entrapping the pollutants, the entire gas flow is treated in special installations. To
make such installations it is necessary to have large investments and civil work. The
operation of such an installation requires high costs and a large consumption of
materials and energy.
Among the pollutants that need to be captured and entrapped, CO2 is raising special
problems due to the large quantity and volume of gas that need to be processed for to be
retained.
The project will include researches for the development of a new procedure to capture
the pollutants, including CO2 from the TPP flue gases. The new procedure consists in
the sequential ( in-step) entrapping of the pollutants in a fraction of the initial flow.
Concentration of the pollutants is accomplished by the in-step application of
some suction forces on the sides of a lamellar gas jet.
The new procedure may be applied along with the classical procedures of CO2
entrapping in order to make it more efficient, i.e an important reduction of the gas flow
to be treated is obtained.
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Capturing and entrapping CO2 from the TPP flue gases is a high priority issue
considering that such Thermal Power Plants are among the greatest CO2 pollutants.
The today procedures to concentrate and entrap CO2 are expensive, energy
consuming and require great investments and operation costs.
The project proposes a new procedure to entrap and retain the pollutants by
exclusively employing physical methods. The procedure consists in the concentration of
the gaseous pollutants – CO2, SO2,NOx – in a residual flow and the separate retain of
the dust by collecting into a bunker. The balance of the gas flow containing
concentrations of pollutants below the allowable limits stated in the provisions in force,
are released to the atmosphere directly. Pollutant concentration and entrapping is made in
a simple system made-up of several modules connected in series and parallel so that the
pollutant concentration may be in steps , in a residual flow. The gas flow to be treated
in the current step, is getting reduced than the gas flow treated in the previous step and
it consists in the gas flows with the pollutant concentration above the allowable limits
collected from the previous modules installed in parallel, in order to assure some large
treatment capacities.
A de-polluting module consists of several sub-modules so made to provide the
flow of a lamellar gas jet which is subjected to various controlled de-pressure levels
which separate the components in the flue gases. At each separation level the gas jet
thickness is re-made-up so that the trajectory of the particles which get separated from
the gas jet be minimum .The dust is collected in a sub-module in the lower part and
evacuated by a sneck.
The separation process is favoured by the sequential reduction of the gas flow to
be treated. The residual gas flow which is concentrated in pollutants, may be stored in
underground storage facilities or may be efficiently treated for the sequential retain of the
pollutants by known classical methods, due to their low volume. Considering the
simplicity of the procedure, it may be used as a first step in the current process of depolluting in order to enhance the efficiency.
The project is developed in several Work Packages:
WP1 – Analysis of the current procedures for CO2 entrapping from the flue
gases;
WP2- Concept and design of a module for pollutant concentration and
entrapping;
WP3- Construction and experimenting a model for the pollutant concentration
and entrapping employing physical methods;
WP5- Experiments with the model of pollutant concentration and entrapping
along 2-3 months period for different flue gases and the analysis of the experiment
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results;
Current
Consortium
(Partners,
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Responses
WP6- Design of a prototype of a pollutant concentration and entrapping module
for an average power TPP;
WP7 – Dissemination of the research results.
Universities, Research Institutes, SMEs with experience in machining, manufactureres
and operators of thermal power systems and flue gas de-polluting equipment which
are to be part of a consortium dealing with the sequential development of the research:
concept, mathematical modeling, design, model construction, experimets,analysis of
results and improvement of models,dissemination of results.
September,3oth,2010.
2. Profile of the Partners Sought
Organization Type
Research Centers, Universities, SME
Required Skills
and Expertise
Experience in mathematical modeling, experiments, I&C in the domain of thermal
power production and flue gas de-polluting equipment, I&C associated to thermal
power production systems, dissemination of results.
Partner or coordinator.
Role in the
project
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Requirements
Looking-for partners: universities, research centers, manufacturers and operators
of thermal power systems and flue gas de-polluting equipment, I&C for thermal
power production systems for making-up a Consortium. Partners in Romania may
participate in all stages.
Domains which are not fully covered are: mathematical modeling, experiments
(specially the I&C )and analysis of results.
The Consortium shall assign the tasks for each pertner after its establishment.
3. Project Proposer Information
Name of the
Organisation
Organisation
Type
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Fields of Activity
Contact Person
SITON
Research/Design
ROMANIA
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Research, design, project management.
SERBAN VIOREL
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Position in the
Organisation
Tel.
Head of the Technical Creation and Research Team.
Email
serbanv@router.citon.ro
URL
http://www.serb.ro
http://www.siton.ro
40722615672
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