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Assessment of the Use of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology to Reduce CO2 Emissions from a Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant in a Polish Context

Published:2024-07-05 Issue:13 Volume:17 Page:3306
ISSN:1996-1073
Container-title:Energies
language:en
Short-container-title:Energies

Author:

Garcés Lucia F. Pérez¹,Sztekler Karol²^ORCID,Azevedo Leonardo³^ORCID,Boruta Piotr²^ORCID,Bujok Tomasz²^ORCID,Radomska Ewelina²^ORCID,Mlonka-Mędrala Agata²^ORCID,Mika Łukasz²^ORCID,Chmielniak Tomasz²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Independent Researcher, ul. Felicjanek 25/09, 31-103 Krakow, Poland

2. Department of Thermal and Fluid Flow Machines, Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH University of Krakow, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

3. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal

Abstract

This study investigates the crucial role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology in mitigating CO2 emissions from Poland’s power systems, which is essential not only for meeting climate targets but also for maintaining energy security in the country. Acknowledging natural gas as a transitional fuel, the focus is on evaluating the decarbonization potential of the natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plant. The NGCC with and without an amine-based carbon capture unit was modeled using IPSEpro (SimTech, version 7.0). It was found that the annual CO2 emission from 435.68 MWe (net) NGCC can be reduced from 1,365,501 tons (357.8 kgCO2/MWh) to 136,556 tons (42.9 kgCO2/MWh). On the other hand, the CCS reduced the net electric power of the NGCC from 435.68 MW to 363.47 MW and the net energy efficiency from 55.60% to 46.39%. Nonetheless, these results demonstrate the potential of using the amine-based CO2 capture technology in NGCC systems. This is especially important in the context of the decarbonization of the Polish power system.

Funder

Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/13/3306/pdf

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