Process Optimization and Benchmarking in CACHET

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Process Optimization and Benchmarking in CACHET
Public workshop 24th April 2007

• Ir. Hans Keuken
• Process Design Center B.V.
• www.process-design-center.com

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Involvement of PDC in CACHET

• Set-up of boundary limits
• For each technology and Base Case
• Generate flow sheet (if not available)
• Optimize carbon capture process
• Optimize integration with gas turbine and HRSG
• Costing of the carbon capture process
• Benchmark new technologies with Base Case and
  Reference Case
• Identify combinations and integration of
  different key technologies

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Involvement of PDC in CACHET

• Set-up of boundary limits
• For each technology and Base Case
• Generate flow sheet (if not available)
• Optimize carbon capture process
• Optimize integration with gas turbine and HRSG
• Costing of the carbon capture process
• Benchmark new technologies with Base Case and
  Reference Case
• Identify combinations and integration of
  different key technologies

Cost estimate
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Involvement of PDC in CACHET

• Set-up of boundary limits
• For each technology and Base Case
• Generate flow sheet (if not available)
• Optimize carbon capture process
• Optimize integration with gas turbine and HRSG
• Costing of the carbon capture process
• Benchmark new technologies with Base Case and
  Reference Case
• Identify combinations and integration of
  different key technologies

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Involvement of PDC in CACHET

• Set-up of boundary limits
• For each technology and Base Case
• Generate flow sheet (if not available)
• Optimize carbon capture process
• Optimize integration with gas turbine and HRSG
• Costing of the carbon capture process
• Benchmark new technologies with Base Case and
  Reference Case
• Identify combinations and integration of
  different key technologies

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Process Design Center

• Process Design Center (PDC) is the leading
  provider of structured conceptual design
  technologies. Our services include
• Conceptual process design (no. 1 position)
• Proprietary process synthesis technology
  (PROSYN)
• gt 120 projects in 10 years
• Energy-efficiency benchmarks (no. 1 position)
• 50 benchmarks since 1999
• Energy saving (e.g. Pinch) (no. 2 position)
• gt 250 projects in 13 years

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Process Design Center Locations
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PDC Group Tools

• Proprietary Tools
• Process Synthesis (PROSYN)
• conceptual design (reactor selection and design /
  non-ideal distillation / absorption / extraction
  / crystallization / membrane processes / waste
  water treatment / selection of mass separating
  agents for distillation, extraction and
  absorption / integration of reaction and
  separation)
• energy integration
• Design and Costing Toolbox
• design rules for process equipment
• quick estimation of investment cost
• estimation of production cost
• Other Tools from
• Aspentech / Hyprotech / KBC (Linnhoff March) /
  CMU / DTU / UMIST / UMASS / UCSB / Uni Delft /
  UNIDO / TUHH

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Conceptual Design
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Work PDC in the coming year

• Optimisation of each work pack
• Efficiency improvement
• Cost reduction
• Integration with gas turbine and steam system
• More detailed cost estimate
• Locate options to integrated different
  technologies (SP2.WP2)
• PDC is work pack leader
• Calculations will be done in work pack of the
  technology
• Make first calculations on new technologies
  (SP1.WP5)

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Benchmark technologies

• Benchmarking of the results will take place
  during the whole project
• Technologies will be benchmarked on
• Electricity price
• Price per ton CO2 captured
• Price per ton CO2 avoided
• Total capital cost
• Efficiency of the whole process
• Corrections will be necessary to make a fair
  comparison
• Sensitivity studies will be executed to increase
  the reliability of the results

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Overall

• PDC has a central roll in the CACHET project
• Process synthesis
• Process optimisation
• Cost estimate
• Benchmarking the result
• Writing the final report