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Carbon Capture, Storage and Use

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This chapter focuses on carbon capture technologies that can be used in coal fired power plants and industrial processes. The three technology lines (post combustion, pre-combustion, oxyfuel) will be described in terms of state of the art, efficiency losses and advantages and disadvantages. An outlook will be given of further developments in the long term (second generation). Special attention will be paid to retrofitting options of existing coal fired power plants. An increasing share of highly volatile renewable power generation will change the flexibility requirements of coal fired power plants. Against this background flexibility options will be discussed for power plants with carbon capture technologies.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Coal to liquid.

  2. 2.

    For comparison, a hard-coal-fired power plant (500 MW, 4500 full load hours) emits around 1.7 MtCO2 per year.

  3. 3.

    Absorbent is tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether.

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Markewitz, P., Bongartz, R. (2015). Carbon Capture Technologies. In: Kuckshinrichs, W., Hake, JF. (eds) Carbon Capture, Storage and Use. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11943-4_2

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