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Environomic optimal design of power plants with CO2 capture

Tock, Laurence  
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Maréchal, François  
2015
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Life cycle impact assessment indicators are integrated for studying the process integration of renewable resources and CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in power plants. Besides the expected reduction in global warming potential (GWP), CCS induces energy and cost penalties. This paper presents a systematic multi-objective optimisation framework for the optimal design of power plants with CO2 capture considering environomic criteria to systematically assess the trade-off between environmental impacts, efficiency and costs. Life cycle assessment is combined with flowsheeting, energy integration, economic evaluation and multi-objective optimisation techniques. Post- and pre-combustion CO2 capture options for electricity generation processes, using fossil and renewable resources, are assessed. Multi-objective optimisations are performed for various objectives to reveal the influence on the decision making. The calculated CO2 emissions, allow to assess the impact of the CO2 tax, considering not only the on-site emissions but taking into account the overall life cycle of the fuel supply, electricity generation and CO2 capture. The results show that the environomic optimal process design and competitiveness of CO2 capture highly depends on the considered environmental impact and on the introduction of a carbon tax.

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DOI
10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.05.022
Web of Science ID

WOS:000358627100024

Author(s)
Tock, Laurence  
Maréchal, François  
Date Issued

2015

Published in
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Volume

39

Start page

245

End page

255

Subjects

CO2 capture

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Life cycle assessment

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Multi-objective optimisation

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Process design

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Power plants

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process_design

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SCCER_CARMA

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SCI-STI-FM  
Available on Infoscience
July 24, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/116597
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