An Overview of the Current Status of the Siemens POSTCAP

Process

Results from POSTCAP pilot plant operation

Michael A. Sandell
Siemens Environmental Systems & Services

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Siemens solutions for CO2 capture

IGCC / Pre-combustion carbon capture Post-combustion carbon capture

“Technology units proven or ready”, integration in new
build IGCC plants
ƒ Gasification technology with multi-fuel capability
ƒ Scrubbing Technologies from oil & gas
ƒ F-class LC Gas Turbine
ƒ Alternative route for chemical / fuel production /
SNG and hydrogen economy
“Scalable” market introduction, for new build and retrofit
Steam PP
ƒ Enhancement potential for solvents, scrubbing
process and for integration into the power plants
ƒ Siemens develops process based on amino acid
salt formulations
ƒ Preferred solution for CCS demonstration projects

Mastering technological / contractual complexity.

Mastering Scale up from pilot to demo plant

Siemens Fuel Gasifier Siemens IGCC technology applied in Siemens scrubbing process Post-Combustion carbon capture
Puertollano (E) test lab plant design

Siemens solutions are ready for the implementation in the

upcoming CCS demonstration projects
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Capture development – “second generation process”

1st generation: 2nd generation: • No thermodynamic

amines, ammonia Amino acid salt solvent emissions
+ -
• Not flammable
K O R’ • Not explosive
H
Salts have no • Odorless
C C N
O
H R
vapor pressure • No inhalation risk
• Chemically Stable
• Naturally Occurring

1st generation: Siemens CO2

basic process setup Solvent slip nearly zero compressor
solutions
90-105°C
Improved setup Low degradation (O2)
(2nd generation):
Status: 8.5 % pts. CO2 concentration 99%
40-45°C pressure 200 bar

approx.
High SOx 120°C
contents
possible
2.7 GJ / ton CO2 captured,
approx. 40% of LP steam

Solvents based on amino acid salts are economic,

have low environmental impact and are easy to handle
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Prevention of crystallization

Absorption capacity Crystallization behavior

for different solvent concentrations

ƒ A high CO2 loading of the solvent was ƒ Crystallization behavior as a

achieved function of temperature and CO2
loading was extensively studied and
ƒ Various SOx concentrations can be is well understood
safely adjusted to investigate the
behavior of active AAS substance
ƒ Several process arrangements were
made in order to prevent
crystallization

Crystallization effects were safely avoided

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 Solvent stability

Results

ƒ the solvent is highly stable and do not

Amino Acid Salt
Components lead to measurable loss of active
w/o H2O wash
substance due to degradation
VOC not detectable ƒ by-products in the liquid phase are
salts with no vapor pressure
Formaldehyde not detectable
ƒ No production of any mentionable
Methylamine not detectable
amounts of emissions
∑Nitrosamines not detectable ƒ small amounts of heat stable salts
Ammonia <1 ppm (HSS) and nitrosamines will be
removed with a reclaimer

The amino-acid salt is stable against thermal stress and oxygen

environments!
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Fortum and Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) plan
to retro-fit Meri-Pori 565 MW coal-fired
power plant
FINNCAP: CCS nachgerüstet zu Meri Pori Anlage
Retrofit project Use of CO2 for EOR
Ship
Meri Pori
30-300 Gt

Flue gas duct

16 Gt

12 Gt

CCS
Intermediate storage Possible storage
Receiving ports
Shipping routes

ƒ 50% Slip stream ƒ CO2 will be captured in Meri-Pori, transported abroad

ƒ Aim to reduce CO2 emissions with ~1,25 million for storage and sequestered in geological formations
ton/year, as well as NOx and SOx emissions ƒ FINCAP commissioning 2015
ƒ Siemens Post-Combustion Technology selected
ƒ Post-combustions technologies
ƒ Oxy-Fuel technologies

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 Conclusion and Outlook

• Promising properties of the Siemens POSTCAP CO2 capture process using AAS were
confirmed from actual pilot plant operation

• A CO2 capture rate of 90% and above was achieved.

• The existing AAS process simulation model was validated.

• No crystallization effects appeared.

• Applicability of stainless steel 1.4571 (316L) as preferred construction material was

confirmed.

• An efficiency drop of only 8.5 %-pts (including CO2 compression to 200 bar and
auxiliary power demand) can be achieved.

• The amino-acid salt is stable against thermal stress and oxygen environments which
appear under real operation conditions.

• Solvent stability and low emissions have been experimentally confirmed.

• No mentionable amounts of emissions could be found.

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