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National Carbon Capture Center at the Power Systems Development Facility

Every day, every job, safely.

Kerry Bowers, Director, National Carbon Capture Center RECS 2011

About Us

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Challenge of CO2 Capture = Cost

Parasitic Power loss is more than of the incremental cost of CO2 capture... ...while incremental Capital adds another to the incremental cost.

Pre-Combustion Capture Cost

40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 9% 10% 5% 5% 4%

4% 2%

Total COE increase (%)

Post-Combustion Capture Cost

9%

Capital Cost COE by 15%

Trans., Stor. & Monit. Compression capital Capture capital

4%

Operating Cost COE by 4%

Capture operating Capture steam Capture aux. pow er Compression pow er

Parasitic Power COE by 17%

Source: Data from Cost and Performance Baseline for Fossil Energy Plants, volume 1: Bituminous Coal and Natural Gas to Electricity, Final Report; NETL, May 2007

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Carbon Capture Terminology

Postcombustion Pre-combustion Oxycombustion

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National Carbon Capture Center

Cooperative Agreement with DOE; managed by NETL. Scope of Work involves all 3 major areas of CO2 capture:

Post-combustion
Build test infrastructure at Plant Gaston Partner with solvent and process developers for evaluation Move technology forward to demonstration phase

Pre-combustion
Utilize and expand existing syngas infrastructure Provide test site for syngas CO2 capture technology evaluation Use data in engineering of full-scale systems

Oxy-combustion
Scoping / screening studies of new pressurized oxycombustion process.

Goals of the NCCC

Offer a unique flexible testing facility where processes can be tested on coal derived gas at various scales Serve as a technology development facilitator by providing facilities for technology scale-up Solicit and incorporate activities and projects from a wide variety of participants and partners. Find Best-in-class Technology. Deliver innovation through a cross-cutting, collaborative project that provides an accelerated pathway to cost-effective CO2 capture technology for coal fueled power production

Post-combustion

Pre-combustion

Oxy-combustion

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Focus of NCCC Technical Program

Basic R&D - Lab Scale Progress to Commercialization Small Pilot Unit Large Pilot Unit Demonstration Commercial

Commercial CO2 Capture Deployment SoCo MHI 25 MW Test at Plant Barry

Transfer laboratory work to more realistic conditions Integrated CO2 capture system testing Sub-system or component testing at larger-scale

Fundamental science & laboratory development

Technology Development Time Scale

Pre-Combustion CO2 Capture

Feed System Development Fuel Flexibility Transport Gasifier Sensor Development

Particulate/Ash Removal Syngas Cleanup/CO2 Capture

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Alabama Power Plant E.C. Gaston

Wilsonville, Alabama

Location of Post-Combustion Facility

Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Center (PC4)

Plant Gaston
Bench Scale Test Units #4
Stack

#3
FGD ID Fan

#2 #1

Pilot Test Unit #2

Pilot Solvent Test Unit (PSTU)

Confidential and Proprietary

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Post-Combustion CO2 Capture

Plant Gaston
Pilot Scale Module

Pilot Solvent Test Unit

Bench Scale

Post-Combustion CO2 Capture

PSTU module delivery and installation

Site Preparation

PSTU modular fabrication

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PSTU Commissioning

- Emergency Ac/on Plans - Environmental Guidelines - Opera/ng Procedures - Training

- Walk-downs - Hang Valve Tags - Rota/ng Equipment Checkouts - Hydro Tests

- Process Controls Congura/on - Controls Graphics - Data Collec/on System Congura/on

- Loop Checks - Func/onal Control Checks

- Ini/al Test with Flue Gas - Baseline Test with MEA

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Transport Combustor
Operated as an air-blown combustor at the PSDF from 1996 to 1999 Excellent results High throughput, nearly complete carbon conversion, low NOx, low SOx Key attributes:
Very high solids circulation rate Robust mechanical design Solids cooler Pressurized operation

O2

Transport Oxy-Combustion (TROC)

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Typical Oxy-Combustion
vent gas (incl. CO2) Arrow thickness is proportional to the mass flow. CO2 High-pres CO2 Compr. CO2 Purification Low-pres CO2 Compr.

recycle CO2 water steam

sorbent Gas Heater ESP or baghouse ash Hg capture Hg Cooling Drying water

coal

Coal Prep secondary gas primary gas

Comb. Boiler

ID Fan

FGD

Fan

Fan

ash

byproduct air infiltration

air Cryo. ASU

oxygen

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Transport Oxy-Combustion
vent gas (incl. CO2) Arrow thickness is proportional to the mass flow. CO2 High-pres CO2 Compr. CO2 Purification

recycle CO2 water recycle CO2 coal Coal Prep Pressur. Feed sorbent TROC w/ Solids Cooler ash Flue Gas Cooler PCD Hg Capture Hg Cooling Drying water steam water steam

ash

air Cryo. ASU oxygen O2 Pres.

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Repowering Retrofit Study

Steam Turbine Steam Generator SCR Baghouse FGD Amine CO2 Capture
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BOP

Steam Turbine TROC CO2-CPU

BOP ASU-O2

Benefits of NCCC for CO2 Capture R&D

Serve as centralized R&D facility
Reduce redundancy of multiple test facilities Leverage existing R&D infrastructure and people

Make available realistic syngas and flue gas for process verification
Flexible in capacity & process conditions Compare different technologies

Offer Southerns expertise in process engineering and Power plant O&M

Identify critical issues Assist in scaling up technologies

Provide independent data acquisition and analysis

Validate laboratory performance in real industrial settings Enable simulation, modeling and economic assessments

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Questions?

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