Work Package 3

Work Package 3: Case Studies for Carbon Dioxide Capture

Work Package 3 focuses on investigating the technology options for capturing carbon from coal fired power stations and assessing which options are most suitable for use in a demonstration plant in China. The work is being led by Imperial College in the UK and jointly in China by GreenGen and the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics (IET), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
    
At present there are three generic processes for capturing carbon from combustion plants:

• Post-combustion capture
• Pre-combustion capture.
• Oxy-fuel combustion.

The objectives of WP3 are:

• To investigate the techno-economic characteristics of various carbon capture technologies, based on the specific conditions of China.
• To identify whether the capture options would be deployed in the short-term, mid-term or long-term.
• To recommend the most promising cases for the CCS demonstration project.  These are likely to be those technologies that exhibit low energy requirements and low economic penalties.

Progress to date

The NZEC project and the WP3 case studies were described by UK Co-Leader Jon Gibbins (Imperial College) at the UKTI CAT Mission meeting in Beijing on 17 January and at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office climate change meetings in Shanghai and Guangzhou in March; they were also discussed during a BBC World Service Discovery series programme on CCS in February.  UK partners Imperial College and Doosan Babcock met for an initial discussion of the oxyfuel case studies and further bilateral and group meetings are planned shortly.  
    
Recently, at a meeting on 23rd April in Beijing, Shell, BP, Imperial College and Chinese partners concentrated on CO₂ transport and gasifier-based capture studies.
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