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Energy consumption analysis of hydrate-based technology in the carbon capture storage process

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Efficient integration of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) process in power generation plants can help reduce global CO2 emissions. Hydrate technology has emerged as one of the most promising technologies for the separation and sequestration of CO2. This paper compares the process energy consumption of different CO2 capture techniques, gas transportation, and sequestration methods integrated into a pre-combustion power plant. Process modeling of a conceptualized hydrate technology-based CCS process is simulated using a coupled TRNSYS simulation software and engineering equation solver. The performance in efficiency, energy consumption, and potential energy penalty is evaluated and analyzed for three study cases. Furthermore, the energy requirement for transporting and sequestrating CO2 in hydrate as hydrate slurry is evaluated and compared to supercritical transportation and sequestration. The results obtained show that the energy consumption of hydrate-based gas separation amounts to 70 % of the total energy consumption for hydrate-based CO2 capture, transportation, and sequestration.

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This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NRF-2016R1D1A1B02010075).

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Rin Yun is a Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanbat National University, Daejeon, South Korea. His research interests are utilizing Hydrothermal energy, natural refrigerants, transportation of Captured CO, and gas-hydrate as a secondary fluid.

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Prah, B., Anokye, M. & Yun, R. Energy consumption analysis of hydrate-based technology in the carbon capture storage process. J Mech Sci Technol 37, 6727–6737 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-023-1140-z

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