One potential method for capturing and sequestering carbon in either a new or retrofit case is to make use of oxy-combustion, a technology that B&W calls OxyBright. OxyBright replaces air in traditional combustion with pure oxygen. The benefit of this conversion is that it removes all nitrogen from combustion process and results in a nearly pure stream of CO2. Proper evaluation is needed to determine necessary system modifications for the concept to be implemented successfully and safely. During this presentation, B&W will discuss the various system and equipment design considerations for oxy firing and look at a few case studies of package boilers where oxy-combustion was applied.

Over 95% of the world’s current CCUS is from pre-combustion CO2 sources, yet over 75% of the world’s emissions are from combustion. Post-combustion CO2 capture is challenged due to low flue gas concentrations (4-10%), low pressure and high temperature. Entropy’s novel MCCS™ is a modular carbon capture technology designed to retrofit existing industrial emitters for post-combustion carbon capture or design for integrated CCS on greenfield development. Furthermore, Entropy’s technology is active on the only commercially active post-combustion CCS on natural gas in the world, at the Glacier gas processing facility near Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Entropy will provide an overview of industrial point source emitters throughout North America using a combination of data analytics tools and public data with a focus on the regional distribution of post-combustion emissions; specifically, types of post-combustion emissions that include reciprocating engines, boilers and turbines. As Entropy demonstrates commerciality on the variety of post-combustion emissions types, Entropy will touch on the opportunities of emission reduction as well as the pathway to scale-up and how it will impact Canadian emissions reduction targets.

Project economics will be a key factor to the advancement of post-combustion carbon capture projects. Technological innovation in post-combustion carbon capture will be instrumental in enabling further industrial decarbonization. Metrics to quantify carbon capture performance include heat duty, cyclic capacity absorption and desorption rates. Heat duty is often represented as energy required per ton of CO2 captured (GJ/T). Traditional first-generation carbon capture solvents are known to require approximately 4 GJ/T of CO2 capture. Third-generation solvents coupled with break-throughs in engineer and design have led to a heat duty near 2 GJ/T. Entropy will discuss the economic impact technology can make on both capital and operating cost reduction.

Post combustion carbon capture applications require a significant utility cooling demand which has major implications to the carbon capture plant capital cost and plot allocation requirements. Utility cooling systems can account for up to 30% of the plant CAPEX and up to 50% of the plant footprint. Proper assessment and optimization of carbon capture plant cooling systems are therefore a necessity in improving carbon capture economics. Optimization of utility systems should not be looked at in isolation from the selected carbon capture technology. A wholistic approach considers impacts to carbon capture efficiency and performance from the utility system design basis including ambient air temperatures, water availability, steam system design and plot plan integration. Considerations around the facility water balance and cooling methodologies will shift the facility cost breakdown between the technology ISBL scope vs. the balance of plant. In this presentation a detailed review of utility cooling system design considerations will be presented. Participants will be provided with a roadmap to optimize utility cooling integration in the carbon capture plant design leveraging Fluor’s extensive experience evaluating and executing carbon capture projects to improve overall project economics.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) has gained increasing attention as a key solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. In this session, we will explore the state of the carbon industry and the progress made towards achieving sequestration targets. We will also examine the financial incentives available to accelerate the deployment of CCUS technologies and the pathway to commerciality. The first part of the session will focus on the current state of the carbon industry, including recent developments in the industry, policy, and regulations. We will examine the progress made in carbon capture and utilization, and discuss the challenges and opportunities in scaling up CCUS projects. The second part of the session will focus on the sequestration targets and the strategies to achieve them. We will discuss the technical and operational challenges of storing carbon underground, as well as the potential risks and benefits of different storage options. The final part of the session will explore the financial incentives available to support the development of CCUS projects. We will discuss the role of carbon pricing, tax credits, and other policy tools in driving investment and innovation in CCUS. All this will be rolled up into recommendations for projects to achieve commerciality. Overall, this conference will provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the CCUS industry, and the challenges and opportunities in the pathway to commerciality. We hope to bring together experts and stakeholders from industry, academia, and government to discuss and share ideas on how to accelerate the deployment of CCUS and achieve our climate goals.

As the way we work and live changes, the way we engineer projects to provide reliable and efficient energy sources has to be agile to this ever varying landscape as we move towards net zero. Aker Solutions has developed a tool to automate the design and estimating of post combustion carbon capture facilities. This tool facilitates the elimination of repetitive and resource intensive tasks to maximise value over volume by thinking beyond the standard engineering processes and also considers how we as individuals work on a day to day basis. By leveraging core design principles, post combustion carbon capture facilities concept designs can be quickly generated for a whole range of different emission sources, industries and sizes. The tool generates full CAPEX estimates using Aker’s own automated, consistent system utilizing out turn data from our significant as-built databases. This presentation describes the methodology, assumptions and design criteria used to generate the tool and how it can be used to efficiently meet challenging project scopes. This includes:

• Selection of carbon capture technology – reviewing and assessing available carbon capture technologies, determining the optimum technology to base the tool off of
• Solution description – detailed descriptions of the selected process technology option, how it works, how it can be applied to different projects.
• Design parameters and scaling – by utilising theoretical design criteria such as chemical reaction mechanisms, CO2 equilibrium data, as well as past project experience and engineering “rules of thumb”, a set of consistent design criteria are combined to generate flexible, robust and scalable designs
• Estimation – by relating of key sizing criteria to installed costs, individual equipment level cost curves can be generated leading to the production of detailed CAPEX estimates
• Case study – demonstrating how the developed tool can quickly and easily generate design, sizing and cost data to meet project scopes, allowing for greater value generation and manhour efficiency
• Next steps – details of where the tool will go next, such as developing the automated function to generate detailed, bespoke engineering design documentation such as engineering drawings, engineering deliverables such as line lists, heat & mass balances, equipment lists and more on a project by project basis