Potential for improvement in power generation with post-combustion capture of CO2

Publisher Summary This chapter highlights the integration of the capture and compression plants into modern, commercially available natural gas and ultra supercritical PF fired power plants are also studied. It presents costs of power production incorporating these technologies and includes a comparison of two commercial amine scrubbing technologies. These technologies are under constant development and rapid progress is being made by the technology owners in reducing the energy consumption of the amine recovery steps by means of novel flow-sheeting and thermal integration concepts are described. An analysis has been made of the best way to integrate amine scrubbing of flue gas into power plant cycles for natural gas and coal fired plants with the aim of reducing the parasitic energy loss in the power cycle to the lowest level possible. A brief discussion on technology stretch is presented which suggests ways in which these technologies may develop from now until 2020, with some estimates of likely production costs.