Preliminary results of a techno-economic assessment of CO₂ capture-network configurations in the industry

Abstract

This paper evaluated the techno economic performance of several CO ₂ capture-network configurations for a cluster of sixteen industrial plants in the Netherlands using bottom up analysis. Preliminary findings indicate that centralizing capture equipment instead of capture equipment at plant sites shows lower average CO₂ avoidance costs for both post-combustion (central: 70€ ; decentral: 86€ ) and oxyfuel combustion (central: 63€ ; decentral: 80€ ) technology, because of economic scale effects, use of large-scale CHP plants and revenues from electricity sale to the grid. Centralizing capture equipment is particularly interesting for small point sources, since these plants benefit most from economies of scale.