Since solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) produce electricity with high energy conversion efficiency, and chemical looping combustion (CLC) is a process for fuel conversion with inherent CO2 separation, a novel combined cycle integrating coal gasification, solid oxide fuel cell, and chemical looping...

Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) represents a commercially proven technology available for the combined production of hydrogen and electricity power from coal and heavy residue oils. When associated with CO2 capture and sequestration facilities, the IGCC plant gives an answer to the...

Effects of 0.29mol% tetra-n-butyl ammonium bromide (TBAB) solution in conjunction with cyclopentane (CP) on the hydrate-based pre-combustion CO2 capture are investigated by the measurements of the gas uptakes, CO2 separation efficiencies and induction time of the hydrate formation at the...

In order to identify approaches for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant optimization it is necessary to analyse where and why the losses in the process occur. Therefore a structured exergy analysis of an IGCC with carbon capture was performed to identify losses on a plant,...

The continuous increase in energy demand and the growing attention on global warming worldwide have aroused great research interest in a novel near zero emission energy utilization system which is based on CaO sorption enhanced gasification. This paper presents the experimental results of...

This paper focuses on the thermodynamic performance of air-blown IGCC systems with post-combustion CO2 capture by chemical absorption. Two IGCC technologies are investigated in order to evaluate two different strategies of coal-derived gas clean-up. After outlining the layouts of two power...

In spite of the rapid development and introduction of renewable and alternative resources, coal still continues to be the most significant fuel to meet the global electricity demand. Emission from existing coal based power plants is, besides others, identified as one of the major sources of...

Environmental damage due to the emission of greenhouse gases from conventional coal-based power plants is a growing concern. Various carbon capture strategies to minimize CO2 emissions are currently being investigated. Unfortunately, the efficiency drop due to de-carbonization is still...

The coal based polygeneration with CO2 capture (PG + CC) technology is expected as one of the possible options to mitigate CO2 emissions with low cost and low energy. This work assesses the cost reduction potential of PG + CC technology based on learning curve method, and finds out what...

Carbon dioxide capture from energy systems will likely become a necessity as the European Union regulations are becoming increasingly more stringent. The greatest disadvantage of the existing methods of CO2 separation is the high energy intensity. In the Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle...