Unified pinch approach for targeting of carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems with multiple time periods and regions

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Chemical Engineering

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volume

71

First Page

67

Last Page

74

Publication Date

5-15-2014

Abstract

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a key technology for the mitigation of industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It involves the reduction of emissions from large industrial facilities (i.e., sources) by capturing the CO2 from the exhaust gases and subsequently storing it in appropriate geological storage sites (i.e., sinks) such as depleted oil and/or gas reservoirs, saline aquifers, coal seams and other similar formations. In practice, these sites may not be readily available for storage at the same time or before the sources are operating, which gives rise to a temporal aspect in the planning problem. At the same time, sources and sinks may need to be clustered geographically to minimize the need to transport CO2 over long distances. This work presents an improved pinch analysis based methodology by simultaneously considering injectivity constraint of every sink as well as time of availability of various sources and sinks. Three illustrative case studies are used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed methodology. The first two case studies illustrate graphical and algebraic variants, while the third case studies shows an extension that involves two distinct geographical regions. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

html

Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.11.027

Disciplines

Chemical Engineering

Keywords

Carbon sequestration

Upload File

wf_yes

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS