D03 - Apply MobileCarbon Capture Test Unit to Reduce Technology Risk for Large-scale Capture Pilot

The ARP3 report for the ADB CCS Center for
Excellence (Guangdong) Project RDTA8714-D03

Apply MobileCarbon Capture Test Unit to Reduce
Technology Risk for Large-scale Capture Pilot

Li WANG,Lihua REN, Jia LI, Xi LIANG, Muxin LIU, Zhigang JIA

Summary

A mobile carbon capture test unit (MCCT) is designed and being built by the UK-China (Guangdong) CCUS Centre totest two post-combustion carbon capture technologies at different emissionsources at bench scale. After the construction, MCCT can be transported to andsettle down at the test site for a two year test. Research will be conductedusing either the lab-simulated flue gas or the real flue gas from the test siteas inlet flue gas. An amine-based absorption technology and a membrane separation technology are selected to be tested in parallel. MCCT is designedto reduce the technology risk for future carbon capture pilot at large-scaleemission sources, such as coal-fired power plant, refinery, steel plant, etc.

MCCT consists of four sections asa flue gas configuration section, a SCR denitration & FGD desulphurisation section, a unique pre-treatment section and a self-designed carbon capture testsection. The flue gas configuration section is designed for the laboratory datameasurement; the denitration& desulphurisation section is designedaccording to the widely used technologies in power plant and aims to purify theinlet flue gas to meet the national emission standard; the pre-treatmentsection is designed to further purify the flue gas and to adjust the flue gastemperature to meet the requirements of both amine absorption process andmembrane separation process; in the carbon capture section, two post-combustion carbon capture modules are designed in parallel. Two carbon capture technologies will be tested under same flue gas condition to reduce the external influence. The evaluation can be achieved by comparing their capture performance at the test site.

MCCT is designed in the purpose of reducing the technology risk of applying thecarbon capture technology at the future capture pilot of large-scale emission sources.