Process-based life cycle CO2 assessment of an ammonia-based carbon capture and storage system

Yoori Kim; Seong-Rin Lim; Kyung A Jung; Jong Moon Park

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.76, 223-232, August, 2019

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2019.03.044 Export Citation

Process-based life cycle CO2 assessment of an ammonia-based carbon capture and storage system

Yoori Kim, Seong-Rin Lim^{1, †}, Kyung A Jung, and Jong Moon Park^†

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering, POSTECH, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, Pohang, 790-784, Republic of Korea
¹Department of Environmental Engineering, Kangwon National University, 1 Kangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon, Gangwon, 200-701, Republic of Korea

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A life cycle CO2 assessment is performed to evaluate the net CO2 reduction performance of a modeled ammonia-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) system and to identify high CO2 emitting processes to be improved with priority. The CCS system sequesters only 64% of the CO2 emitted from a power plant, which is significantly lower than the CO2 capture performance (95%), because CO2 equal to the gap is newly emitted due to energy and materials consumptions for CCS operations. The priority processes are CO2 capture, transport, and wastewater treatment. This study provides valuable information needed to develop high performance CCS systems.

Keywords:Ammonia absorbent;Carbon capture and storage (CCS);Life cycle assessment (LCA);Net CO2reduction

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