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1. Introduction - Firenze University Press

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Abstract:<br />

PROCEEDINGS OF ECOS 2012 - THE 25 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON<br />

EFFICIENCY, COST, OPTIMIZATION, SIMULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF ENERGY SYSTEMS<br />

JUNE 26-29, 2012, PERUGIA, ITALY<br />

Thermodynamic analysis of a supercritical power<br />

plant with oxy type pulverized fuel boiler, carbon<br />

dioxide capture system (cc) and four-end high<br />

temperature membrane air separator<br />

Janusz Kotowicz a , Sebastian Michalski b<br />

a Silesian <strong>University</strong> of Technology, Poland, janusz.kotowicz@polsl.pl,<br />

b Silesian <strong>University</strong> of Technology, Poland, sebastian.michalski@polsl.pl,<br />

In this paper the analysis of a supercritical power plant was made. Power of the power plant is 460 MW. The<br />

parameters of life steam are at 29 MPa/600 oC and of the reheated steam 4.8 MPa/600 oC. Power plant is<br />

equipped with the following units: oxy type pulverized fuel boiler, "four-end" high temperature membrane<br />

(HTM) air separator and carbon dioxide capture system (CC). With the assumption of a constant gross<br />

power of the analyzed power plant the thermal efficiency of the boiler and power consumption of all<br />

mentioned above units were calculated. These parameters were designated as a function of the recovery<br />

rate of oxygen in the HTM. This allowed to make the characteristic of efficiency as a function of recovery<br />

rate. The net efficiency increased from 34.8% to 36.7% with a change of oxygen recovery rate from 0.45 to<br />

0.9. The effect of membrane working temperature on the efficiency characteristics was also analyzed.<br />

Integration of CC, HTM air separator and steam cycle was proposed for the increase of the efficiency of a<br />

power plant. The theoretical analysis was carried out and appropriate calculations were made for this<br />

integration.<br />

Keywords:<br />

OXY type pulverized fuel boiler, air separation, four-end HTM (High Temperature Membrane)<br />

<strong>1.</strong> <strong>Introduction</strong><br />

Currently observed in the world trend in efforts to reduce emissions, especially of greenhouse gases,<br />

contributes to significant changes in the direction of the development of energy technologies [1].<br />

This is very important for the development of coal technologies, due to importance of these fuels in<br />

the energy balances of many countries, including Poland, as well as due to significant emission of<br />

CO2 per electricity production unit. In the area of coal technology there are two main research<br />

directions aiming to bring down the reduction of CO2 unit emission, thus, in consequences, to the<br />

reduction of global emission:<br />

search of low-energy consuming carbon capture technologies (including searching for new<br />

technologies, optimization of known technologies, also in the area of integration of the CCS unit<br />

with a power plant),<br />

increasing the efficiency of electricity generation, including optimization of a power plant, both<br />

in the area of its structure, as well as in area of operation parameters [2].<br />

Among carbon capture technologies three directions are developed:<br />

pre-combustion technology,<br />

post-combustion technology,<br />

oxy-combustion technology.<br />

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