Ferrybridge CCPilot100+ Operating Experience and Final Test Results

Practical experience in post-combustion CO2 capture using reactive solvents in large pilot and demonstration plants

“…The retrofit, with the super critical boiler and turbine, are intended to capture, through an efficiency increase from 36% to 45%, 0.5 Mt/year CO 2 . According to Fitzgerald et al (2014a), Ferrybridge represented the largest carbon capture plant of any type in the UK. Therefore, it also represented a significant step forward in the world of CCS as a critical bridge between research and commercialisation.…”

“…The objective of the project was to test amine based post combustion capture (PCC) technology on a real working power station. According to Fitzgerald et al, (2014a), the test program was to run from 2012 to 2013 during which period the process and components would be optimized, and performance models developed. The 100 ton of CO 2 per day are captured from a flue gas slipstream corresponding to approximately 5 MW of electric power (Fitzgerald et al, 2014a).…”

“…According to Fitzgerald et al, (2014a), the test program was to run from 2012 to 2013 during which period the process and components would be optimized, and performance models developed. The 100 ton of CO 2 per day are captured from a flue gas slipstream corresponding to approximately 5 MW of electric power (Fitzgerald et al, 2014a). This slipstream is extracted after the newly commissioned flue gas desulphurisation unit at the Ferrybridge power station.…”

Modelling of CO2 absorption in a rotating packed bed using an Eulerian porous media approach

“…Finally, the CO 2 rich solvent flows out of the reactor from the bottom of the column and the flue gas is released from the exhaust to the atmosphere at the top of the column (Fitzgerald et al, 2014). As discussed above, the RPB is a special mode of PB.…”