TY - JOUR AU - Kowalczyk, Łukasz AU - Niegodajew, Paweł AU - Drobniak, Stanisław AU - Elsner, Witold PY - 2016/12/04 TI - Thermodynamic analysis and profitability study of a power unit with an added CO2 capture plant JF - Journal of Power Technologies; Vol 96 No 4 (2016) KW - N2 - Concerns over greenhouse gas emissions are driving a requirement for newly built coal power units to satisfy the so-called “capture ready” conditions. This paper presents the a thermo-economic analysis supplemented by a cost evaluation of a power unit for ultra-supercritical parameters expanded by an amine-based CO2 capture plant. The analysis was performed with the use of an integrated package containing the IPSEpro, MATLAB and Revenue Requirement Method implemented in MOExcel. The 0D model of a post combustion capture installation was developed based on complex CFD calculations of the absorber and stripper. A number of CFD simulations were conducted to create a large database, which was then utilized to develop suitable correlations describing the process Thermodynamic and economic calculations were performed in respect of a power plant coupled with a CO2 separation unit for a varying ratio of amine solvent to the exhaust gas stream (L/G). A local minimum for reboiler heat duty was found for L/G3.5 revealing the optimal post combustion capture configuration. It was observed that complementing the power unit with a post-combustion capture (PCC) installation causes a slight increase in the investment costs due to the drop in efficiency, but more important is the rise in total cost due to the investment associated with the CO2 capture plant. It was found that about 14 years is required to compensate the investment cost of the PCC installation. UR - https://papers.itc.pw.edu.pl/index.php/JPT/article/view/736