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Polymer-Based Carbon Dioxide Capture Membrane Systems

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) developed and demonstrated polymer-based membrane structures, deployment platforms, and sealing technologies for attaining a combination of high selectivity, high permeability, chemical stability, and mechanical stability at elevated temperatures (>150 °C) and packaged in a scalable, economically viable, high area density system amenable to incorporation into an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant for pre-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture.

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Development Of A Dry Sorbent-based Post-combustion CO2 Capture Technology For Retrofit In Existing Power Plants

Research Triangle Institute (RTI) developed and tested a carbon dioxide (CO2) capture pro­cess that utilizes a dry sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) sorbent that is based on the reaction of Na2CO3 with CO2 and water vapor present in the flue gas from a coal-fired power plant. 


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Development Of Biomimetic Membranes For Near-Zero PC Power Plant Emissions

Carbozyme set out to develop an enzyme-based, contained liquid membrane (CLM) to ex­tract carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal and natural gas combustion flue gas. Carbozyme also set out to evaluate a state-of-the-art electrodialytic (EDI) method for CO2 capture, compar­ing its performance with that of the CLM. 

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NRG CO 2 NCEPT Confirmation of Novel Cost Effective Emerging Post Combustion Technology

NRG Energy proposed to develop a post-combustion carbon dioxide capture project utilizing the Inventys VeloxoThermTM technology utilizing a structured adsorbent in a rotary bed adsorber using rapid cycle temperature swing adsorption. The project would have included developing the scope, configuration, and design basis of a pilot-scale system.

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Improvement of GE Power’s Chilled Ammonia Process Large Pilot with the Use of Membrane Technology

GE Power developed several concepts for improving their existing solvent-based Chilled Ammonia Process (CAP) for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants by incorporating commercially available membrane technologies to reduce energy and capital costs. Three concepts were investigated at bench-scale to determine feasibility of testing with a large pilot CO2 validation facility at Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM).

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Large Pilot-Scale Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Capture Project Using Aminosilicone Solvent

GE Global Research developed a plan to define a 10-MWe large pilot-scale project for post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture using their novel aminosilicone-based solvent, minimizing and quantifying risks associated with technical success, cost, and schedule. The information from this Phase I project can be used to inform the experimental design, budget, and schedule for a Phase II pilot test project.

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Bench-Scale Process for Low-Cost Carbon Dioxide Capture Using a Phase-Changing Absorbent

GE Global Research is designing and optimizing a bench-scale process using a novel phase-changing aminosilicone-based carbon dioxide (CO2)-capture solvent (absorbent) to establish scalability and technical and economic feasibility of using a phase-changing CO2-capture absorbent for post-combustion capture, with the ultimate goal of achieving an overall reduction in CO2 capture cost.

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Novel Flow Sheet for Low Energy CO 2 Capture Enabled by Biocatalyst Delivery System

Akermin developed an advanced biocatalyst enabled solvent system for lower cost carbon dioxide (CO2) capture. The project focused on the development of encapsulated carbonic anhydrase (CA) biocatalyst technology. The project combines an improved biocatalyst delivery system (BDS), a new solvent, and process improvements tested in a modified bench-scale system incorporating these new advancements.

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Optimizing the Costs of Solid Sorbent-Based CO2 Capture Process through Heat Integration

ADA Environmental Solutions (ADA-ES) investigated heat recovery for a temperature-swing-adsorption (TSA) capture process, including the use of a cross-heat exchanger to recover sensible heat from the sorbent leaving the regenerator. Recovering heat generated by the sorbent during the capture process reduces the energy penalty and overall cost for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture.

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Rapid Temperature Swing Adsorption Using Polymeric/Supported Amine Hollow Fiber Materials

Georgia Tech Research Corporation developed a rapid temperature swing adsorption (RTSA) carbon dioxide (CO2) process and evaluated the cost and performance benefits of this novel hybrid capture approach via bench-scale testing of a module containing polymeric/supported amine hollow fibers, which are loaded with supported adsorbents and surround an impermeable lumen layer that allows for cooling and heating.

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Low-Energy Solvents for CO2 Capture Enabled by a Combination of Enzymes and Vacuum Regeneration

Novozymes, together with the project partners, designed, built, and tested an integrated bench-scale system that combines the attributes of an enzyme catalyst (carbonic anhydrase [CA]) with low-enthalpy absorption liquids and vacuum regeneration in a solvent-based carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process, and evaluated a novel ultrasonically enhanced regeneration concept.

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Bench-Scale Development of an Advanced Solid Sorbent-Based CO2 Capture Process for Coal-Fired Power Plants

RTI International addressed the technical and economic hurdles to developing a sorbent-based carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process by transitioning a promising sorbent chemistry, based on molecular basket sorbent (MBS) materials, to a low-cost sorbent suitable for use in a fluidized-bed process and developing a scalable circulating fluidized, moving-bed reactor (FMBR) process arrangement.

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Carbon Absorber Retrofit Equipment (CARE)

Neumann Systems Group, Inc. (NSG) has designed, constructed, and tested a 0.5-MW scale patented NeuStream® absorber at the Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) Martin Drake #7 power plant. The absorber employs nozzle technology proven during a previously completed 20-MW NeuStream-S flue gas desulfurization (FGD) pilot project, as well as a 6-m piperazine (PZ) solvent, which is an efficient solvent for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2). The goal of the project is to show that the absorber system is capable of significantly reducing the process equipment footprint and the CO2 capture system cost.

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Low-Cost High-Capacity Regenerable Sorbent for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants

TDA Research, Inc. (TDA) developed a low-cost, high-capacity carbon dioxide (CO2) adsorbent to demonstrate its technical and economic viability through sorbent evaluation and optimization, development of sorbent production techniques, and bench-scale testing of the process using actual flue gas.

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Development of a Novel Gas Pressurized Stripping Based Technology for CO2 Capture from Post Combustion Flue Gases

Carbon Capture Scientific has performed bench-scale development, testing, and computer simulations of a novel solvent-based carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology, known as gas-pressurized stripping (GPS) process. The GPS technology has the potential to significantly reduce the energy penalty associated with solvent regeneration and compression by operating the regeneration step at higher pressures, which in-turn reduces the compression requirements for CO2 storage.

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Development and Demonstration of Waste Heat Integration with Solvent Process for More Efficient CO2 Removal from Coal-Fired Flue Gas

Southern Company Services developed viable heat integration methods for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from pulverized coal (PC) combustion. The project quantified energy efficiency improvements to an existing amine-based CO2 capture process by utilizing a waste heat recovery, high-efficiency system (HES) and evaluated the technical and economic feasibility of full-scale implementation of this technology.

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Slipstream Pilot-Scale Demonstration of a Novel Amine Based Post-Combustion Process Technology for CO2 Capture from Coal-Fired Power Plant Flue Gas

Linde is refining a post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology incorporating BASF’s novel amine-based solvent, with the main technical goal of significantly reducing solvent regeneration energy requirements over conventional monoethanolamine (MEA)-based amine capture. Technology development has been fostered by designing, building, and operating a 1-megawatt electric (MWe) equivalent slipstream pilot plant at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) to evaluate and optimize performance.

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Post-combustion CO2 Capture For Existing PC Boilers By Self-concentrating Amine Absorbent

3H Company set out to experimentally and analytically confirm the feasibility of the proposed Self-Concentrating Absorbent CO2 Capture Process, with the goal of developing a sound engineering design, supported by laboratory data and economic justification, for a flue gas slipstream-testing unit. 

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CO2 Capture from IGCC Gas Streams Using the AC-ABC Process

SRI International (SRI)’s goal was development of a carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC)-based power plants that uses a high-capacity and low-cost aqueous solution containing ammonium carbonate (AC) that reacts with CO2 to form ammonium bicarbonate (ABC). SRI partnered with Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions (BHTS) to use the Bechtel Pressure Swing Claus (BPSC) process to remove sulfur species from the recovered CO2 stream.

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Accelerating the Development of “Transformational” Solvents for CO2 Separations

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) developed transformational carbon dioxide (CO2) capture solvents based on their nonaqueous switchable organic solvents, known as CO2-binding organic liquids (CO2BOLs). The project focus used computation-aided molecular design to optimize, synthesize, and characterize CO2BOLs with a CO2-rich viscosity of less than 50 cP at a cost of less than $10/kg.

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Evaluation Of Carbon Dioxide Capture From Existing Coal-fired Plants By Hybrid Sorption Using Solid Sorbents

The University of North Dakota (UND) and Envergex LLC are developing a solid sorbent technology—Capture from Existing Coal-Fired Plants by Hybrid Sorption (CACHYS™)—that is based on the following principles:
• Reduction of energy for sorbent regeneration.
• Utilization of novel process chemistry.
• Contactor conditions that minimize sorbent-CO2 heat of reaction and promote fast CO2 capture.
• Low-cost method of heat management.
• Low-cost, carbon-based sorbent impregnated with an alkali carbonate salt and an active promoter.

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Bench-scale, High-performance, Thin Film Composite Hollow Fiber Membrane For Post-combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture

General Electric Global Research (GE) is developing high-performance, thin film polymer composite hollow fiber membranes and advanced processes for economical post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture. The project includes bench-scale testing to tune the properties of a novel phosphazene polymer membrane and decrease costs through development of innovative fabrication techniques.

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Bench-scale Development Of A Hot Carbonate Absorption Process With Crystallization-enabled High-pressure Stripping For Post-combustion Co2 Capture

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is performing a proof-of-concept study that will generate process engineering and scaleup data to optimize the Hot Carbonate Absorption Process (Hot-CAP) with crystallization-enabled, high-pressure stripping technology. The study seeks to demonstrate its capability to achieve the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) goals of at least 90 percent carbon dioxide (CO2) removal from coal-fired power plant flue gas with less than a 35 percent increase in the cost of electricity (COE), helping to advance the process to pilot-scale level within 3 years.

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Evaluation Of Dry Sorbent Technology For Pre- Combustion Co2 Capture

URS Group and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) are developing dry carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent materials, through the coupling of thermodynamic, molecular simulation, as well as process simulation modeling with novel synthesis methods, that possess superior adsorption and regeneration properties at conditions applicable to water gas shift (WGS) systems. If successful, this project will demonstrate that one or more sorbent materials are able to remove greater than 90 percent of the CO2 from a simulated synthesis gas (syngas) at conditions applicable to a WGS reactor, thus meeting a key U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program objective.

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Designing And Validating Ternary Pd-alloys For Optimum Sulfur/carbon Resistance

Pall Corporation is developing an economically viable hydrogen (H2)/carbon dioxide (CO2) separation membrane system that would allow efficient capture of CO2 at high temperature and pressure from gasified coal in the presence of typical contaminants using a ternary palladium (Pd)-alloy. Membranes were fabricated and tested in simulated coal gasification conditions. The final objective is a membrane with high hydrogen flux and excellent resistance to syngas contaminants.

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Pre-combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture By A New Dual-phase Ceramic-carbonate Membrane Reactor

Arizona State University is developing a dual-phase, membrane-based separation device that will separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from typical water-gas shift (WGS) mixture feeds and produce hydrogen (H2), which can be introduced into the combustion turbines of integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants.

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Pressure Swing Absorption Device And Process For Separating Co2 From Shifted Syngas And Its Capture For Subsequent Storage

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is developing, via laboratory-scale experiments, a pressure swing membrane absorption-based (PSMAB) device using a non-dispersive, membrane-based gas-liquid contactor that produces hydrogen at high pressure for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), as well as a carbon dioxide (CO2) stream, between 1 and 5 atm, that contains at least 90 percent of the CO2 from a feed gas at ≈200 °C and 300 pounds per square inch gauge (psig).

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Carbon Capture Retrofit Database – v.2019.1

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has developed three carbon capture retrofit database (CCRD) tools that provide high-level analysis on the incremental cost for retrofitting point sources with carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and/or compression systems. The tools also provide options to include the cost of implementing other plant emissions reduction technology improvements that may be required to comply with various regulations (e.g., Mercury and Air Toxic Standards [MATS][1] and New Source Performance Standards [NSPS][2]) when installing CO2 scrubbing technology, or aid in maximizing the efficiency of the installed CO2 removal technology.

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Low-Viscosity, Water-Lean CO2-Binding Organic Liquids (CO2BOL) with Polarity-Swing Assisted Regeneration (PSAR)

This project is an extension to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) initial Discovery of Carbon Capture Substances and Systems (DOCCSS) project, which is aimed at advancing the promising Carbon Dioxide-Binding Organic Liquid (CO2BOL) single-component derivative N-(2-ethoxyethyl)-3-morpholinopropan-1-amine (EEMPA) to assess this solvent’s viability towards meeting the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) cost and performance targets for carbon capture. This DOCCSS extension will allow programmatic involvement by industrial participants to evaluate the CO2BOL derivative on a bench-scale platform and to aid in the development of a novel system. The final process design, along with the solvent, will include integrated (simultaneous absorption and regeneration) testing at the bench-scale on synthetic flue gas at an industrial participant facility. The participants will also lead key techno-economic analyses (TEAs), targeted testing, and broader industry outreach to assure subsequent transfer of the technology to industry.

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Advanced Solvent-Based Carbon Capture Technology Development

Southern Company Services evaluated the technical and economic feasibility of adding an integrated stripper/reboiler, particulate matter management, and a new solvent to the existing 25-megawatt electric (MWe)-scale, amine-based Kansai Mitsubishi Carbon Dioxide Recovery Process (KM CDR Process™) at Southern Company's Plant Barry.

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Full-Scale FEED Study for Retrofitting the Prairie State Generating Station with an 816-MWe Capture Plant Using Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. Technology

The University of Illinois and its partners will perform a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the retrofit of the Prairie State Generation Company’s (PSGC) coal-fired power station with post-combustion carbon capture. The University of Illinois and the team will produce a FEED study that uses Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) Advanced Kansai Mitsubishi Carbon Dioxide Recovery (KM CDR) Process™ carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology to retrofit one of PSGC’s two generating units (approximately 816 megawatt-electric [MWe]) in Marissa, Illinois, to become the largest post-combustion capture plant in the world.

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Hybrid Encapsulated Ionic Liquids for Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture

The University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and colleagues at the University of Texas, has been developing technology for hybrid encapsulated ionic liquid (IL) and phase-change ionic liquid (PCIL) materials for post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture. Although ILs have many favorable properties as CO2-absorbing solvents, their typically high viscosities directly correlate with poor mass transfer rates and prohibit their practicable application in large-scale commercial operation when configured in conventional absorption/regeneration systems. Researchers’ work in identifying ILs and PCILs with high capacity and low regeneration energy that, when combined with their technology for microencapsulation of the ILs or PCILs in polymer shells, may enable synthesis of high surface area IL- and PCIL-based materials well-suited for CO2 capture from post-combustion flue gas. The goal of the project is successful synthesis of the microencapsulated ILs and/or PCILs and validated CO2 removal from simulated flue gas in a laboratory-scale unit, with demonstration of dramatically improved mass transfer rates.

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Novel Carbon Dioxide-Selective Membranes for CO2 Capture from Less than 1% CO2 Sources

Ohio State University (OSU) is developing a cost-effective design and manufacturing process for new membranes and membrane modules that capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from sources with less than 1% CO2. Synthesis of novel CO2-selective membranes using a nanoporous polyethersulfone (PES) polymer support and coating a top layer of thin, highly selective, yet permeable amine-containing polymer membrane will be performed. Pilot-size membranes will be used to fabricate at least three membrane modules for testing with the simulated gas mixture.

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Evaluation of Concentrated Piperazine for CO2 Capture from Coal-Fired Flue Gas

URS Group, Inc. (URS) investigated the use of a concentrated aqueous piperazine (PZ) solvent combined with novel solvent regeneration systems to capture carbon
dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired flue gas more economically. Methods for measurement, generation, and control of amine aerosols were also explored. Pilot
tests and analyses were conducted at the 0.1-megawatt-electric (MWe) scale, and then scaled to the 0.5-MWe scale for testing at the National Carbon Capture
Center (NCCC). Results were used to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of a full-scale implementation of this process.

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Advanced Carbon Dioxide Compression with Supersonic Technology

Dresser-Rand, a Siemens Business, is developing a unique compressor technology based upon flight-based supersonic/shockwave compression principles for use as a carbon dioxide (CO2) compressor. Advancing supersonic compressor technology will help meet overall goals of lower capital costs, smaller footprints, and improvedenergy efficiencies of carbon capture systems.

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Front-End Engineering Design Study for a Carbon Capture Plant Retrofit to a Natural Gas- Fired Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plant

Bechtel National, Inc. is performing a comprehensive front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a carbon capture and compression plant retrofit to an existing natural gas-fired combined cycle (NGCC) power plant located in Texas. The capture plant is based on conventional technology comprising a non-proprietary aqueous solvent, monoethanolamine (MEA), an absorber-stripper cycle, and multi-stage centrifugal compressors.

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