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Published October 2023 | Version v1
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Scaling-up Of A Highly Modular Rotating Packed Bed Plant With An Efficient Solvent For Capture Cost Reduction: An Overview of the HiRECORD Project

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
  • 2. ROR icon Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • 3. ROR icon TU Wien
  • 4. ROR icon Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
  • 5. Julius Montz GmbH
  • 6. CAO Hellas
  • 7. Elpedison
  • 8. ROR icon Total (France)
  • 9. Greek Exporters Association
  • 10. ROR icon Newcastle University
  • 11. ROR icon Imperial College London
  • 12. Richard Alan Engineering
  • 13. Carbon Clean Solutions Limited

Description

In a world’s first, HiRECORD will demonstrate at TRL 6, a modular CO2 capture plant that will comprise a Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) absorber and an advanced RPB desorber with integrated spinning reboiler (RPB-ISR). The plant will be of 10 t/d CO2 capture capacity and will operate with the advanced, APBS-CDRMax solvent. It will be operated on the premises of a natural-gas power plant, of an industrial gas boiler and of a quicklime plant, highlighting the high modularity and flexibility of RPB processes with flue gases of different specifications. Studies will also take place, pertaining to the solvent operation and equipment corrosion under the influence of contaminants such as SOx and NOx. Solvent modeling under such contaminants will be based on the SAFT-γ Mie equation of state. The advanced capture plant will allow up to 50% capture cost reduction, compared to conventional MEA-based, packed-bed technologies. This reduction will result from at least 10 times lower space footprint due to the use of the RPBs, with direct beneficial impacts on capital expenditures, as well as a regeneration energy of 2.1 GJ/tCO2 due to the use of the APBS-CDRMax solvent and the RPB-ISR. These features will also enable 20% and 50% lower environmental and safety impacts, as the solvent and operating conditions will minimize emissions, corrosion and make-up requirements. Techno-economic studies will also include an industrial cluster in Northern Greece, where options of CO2 utilization as well transportation and sequestration in nearby geological sites will also be investigated. Extensive societal, public acceptance and policy studies will also be performed.

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Papadopoulos et al PRES 2023 HiRECORD Overview.pdf

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Funding

European Commission
HiRECORD - SCALING-UP OF A HIGHLY MODULAR ROTATING PACKED BED PLANT WITH AN EFFICIENT SOLVENT FOR CAPTURE COST REDUCTION 101075727
UK Research and Innovation
Scaling-Up Of A Highly Modular Rotating Packed Bed Plant With An Efficient Solvent For Capture Cost Reduction 10042326
UK Research and Innovation
SCALING-UP OF A HIGHLY MODULAR ROTATING PACKED BED PLANT WITH AN EFFICIENT SOLVENT FOR CAPTURE COST REDUCTION 10042487
UK Research and Innovation
SCALING-UP OF A HIGHLY MODULAR ROTATING PACKED BED PLANT WITH AN EFFICIENT SOLVENT FOR CAPTURE COST REDUCTION (HiRECORD) 10050119
UK Research and Innovation
Scaling-up of a Highly Modular Rotating Packed Bed Plant with an Ef?cient Solvent for Capture Cost Reduction (HiRECORD) 10058640