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Summary<br />

In this paper the air separation unit integrated with the oxy type pulverized boiler was analyzed. The<br />

oxy type boiler supplies the live steam and the reheated stem to the steam cycle. The gross power of<br />

the steam turbine generator of the steam cycle is equal to 460 MW.<br />

For the analysis the characteristics of the boiler thermal efficiency, auxiliary power rate of the steam<br />

cycle, carbon dioxide capture unit and air separation unit as a function of oxygen recovery rate in<br />

the "four-end" type separation membrane were determined.<br />

It should be noticed that the value of the boiler thermal efficiency shown in Figure 4 is increasing<br />

from about 55% (for 40% of the oxygen recovery rate) to about 83% (for 100% of the oxygen<br />

recovery rate). This characteristic is nonlinear and the acceleration of growth of the boiler thermal<br />

efficiency decreases with increasing oxygen recovery rate.<br />

The auxiliary power rate of the carbon dioxide capture unit and the auxiliary power rate of the oxytype<br />

pulverized boiler shown in Figure 5 decreases with increasing the oxygen recovery rate. This<br />

characteristics are nonlinear. The auxiliary power rate of steam cycle is the same for all oxygen<br />

recovery rates, because the power of steam turbine is held at a constant level. The auxiliary power<br />

rate of the air separation unit shown in Figure 6 unlike the other auxiliary power rates has a negative<br />

value in the studied range of oxygen recovery rate. This means that the expander generates more<br />

power than the power needed to drive the compressor. The auxiliary power rate of the air separation<br />

unit increases with the increase of the oxygen recovery rate.<br />

It should be noticed that the value of the net efficiency of electricity generation shown in Figure 7 is<br />

increasing from about 35% (for 40% of the oxygen recovery rate) to about 38% (for 100% of the<br />

oxygen recovery rate). This characteristic is nonlinear and the acceleration of growth of net<br />

efficiency of electricity generation decreases with increasing the oxygen recovery rate. This graph<br />

indicates that the studied integrated models have the highest net overall efficiency for the oxygen<br />

recovery value equal to 100%.<br />

Acknowledgements<br />

The results presented in this paper were obtained from research work co-financed by the National<br />

Centre for Research and Development within a framework of Contract SP/E/2/66420/10 – Strategic<br />

Research Programme – Advanced Technologies for Energy Generation: Development of a<br />

technology for oxy-combustion pulverized-fuel and fluid boilers integrated with CO2 capture.<br />

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