Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 GHGT-12 Environmental Due Diligence of CO2 Capture and Utilization Technologies – Framework and application Bhawna Singha,*,Rick Reijersa, Mijndert W. van der Spekb, Wouter B. Schakelb, Ragnhild Skagestadc, Hans Aksel Haugenc, Andrea Ramirezb, Nils Henrik Eldrupc, Edgar G. Hertwicha, Anders Hammer Strømmana a Industrial Ecology Programme and Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim-7491, Norway. b Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. c Tel-Tek, Porsgrunn-3918, Norway. Abstract This article presents an overview of an environmental due diligence framework developed as part of the EDDiCCUT project, and presents analysis and results from the first test case – MEA based CO2 capture process. The framework draws upon well-established technical, economic and environmental assessment methods and integrates technical performance, uncertainties, cost estimation and life cycle inventory data to ensure consistency and enhance quality. Results show that for the modelled coal power plant of about 800 MW gross power output, the CO2 capture system lowers the net efficiency by 10.4% efficiency points and results in a 68% increase in the cost of electricity. Environmental performance evaluated on a broad range of 24 impacts and emission categories indicates a 68% reduction in climate change warming potential with 20-90% increase in other impacts. By comparing the quality of the inventory data used for environmental assessment with the state-of-art data in available life cycle assessment literature, it is found that the due diligence analysis brings significant improvement in the quality of data for certain processes in the value chain. © Published by Elsevier Ltd. This ©2014 2013The TheAuthors. Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Selection and peer-review under responsibility of GHGT. Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of GHGT-12 Keywords: environmental due diligence; CO2 capture and storage; post-combustion; monoethanolamine * Corresponding author. Tel.: +0-000-000-0000 ; fax: +0-000-000-0000 . E-mail address: bhawna.singh@ntnu.no 1876-6102 © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of GHGT-12 doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.779 7430 Bhawna Singh et al. / Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 1. Introduction Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) can play a key role in decarbonizing the energy and industrial sector, and can act as a bridging technology towards a renewable and sustainable energy future. Also, the use of captured CO2 as feedstock (Carbon dioxide Capture and Utilization – CCU) for conversion to fuels and chemicals is increasingly gaining attention. The current analysis and understanding of the potential environmental benefits and trade-offs through the life cycle of CCS shows varying results. This variation exists both in the value as in the direction of the environmental impacts (positive vs. negative). An additional aspect is that technical, economic and environmental assessments are generally based on different assumptions and system boundaries, which contributes to the large range of results reported in literature. It is therefore necessary that performance assessments are available in a systematic and harmonized way, so that options that maximize environmental benefits along the chain can be further developed, and potential adverse impacts on the environment are identified at an early stage. This is at the core of the EDDiCCUT project. The Environmental Due Diligence of novel CO2 Capture and Utilization Technologies (EDDiCCUT) [1] is a 4 year research project started in January 2013. The term Environmental Due Diligence refers to the thorough assessment of the overall environmental performance of a technology. It is a means to manage risk, analogous to due diligence studies preceding business acquisitions. The Environmental Due diligence (EDD) framework developed in this project anchors on well-established technical, economic and environmental assessment methods that enable consistent comparisons of CCS and CCU and integrate technical performance, uncertainties, cost estimation and life cycle inventory data to ensure consistency and enhance quality. In addition to the systematic integrated evaluation, the framework provides the novelty of monitoring the quality of the models and of the input and output data. In this article we present the overview of the EDD framework and discuss the analysis and results from the first case study of amine (MEA) based CO2 capture. The paper consists of four sections including this introduction. Section 2 presents the developed framework and the case study analysis. Section 3 presents results and discussion for technical, economic and environmental assessment with more details on environmental performance, and section 4 presents the outlook for future work. 2. Method 2.1. Environmental Due Diligence framework Figure 1. Schematic approach for Environmental Due Diligence framework The EDD framework provides a strategy for integrated technical, economic and environmental assessment with an overarching management of the individual tasks where decisions are taken in conjunction with pre-defined goals of a case i.e. assessment of a given technology. Figure 1 presents the main building blocks of the EDD framework. The assessment process includes five distinct tasks or phases: Bhawna Singh et al. / Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7431 Information compilation aimed at collecting, arranging, evaluating and harmonizing the available data in the context of technical-economic-environmental modeling, Modeling the technical-economic-environmental performance, including uncertainties Generate assessment indicators on each aspect, Due diligence assessment (individual): review the assessment indicators for the case, Due diligence assessment (comparative): review the assessment indicators for the case in comparison with other case studies. 2.2. Case study analysis A coal based power plant with CO2 capture unit using Monoethanolamine (MEA) as solvent is selected as the first case study to test the EDD framework. 2.2.1. Scoping and design basis Scope of the case study is defined in two phases – initial scoping and detailed scoping. In the initial scoping decisions are made on purpose of the assessment, technology to be assessed, plant type, location of the plant, temporal aspect and system boundary. The detailed scoping deals with the more comprehensive decisions on specific plant area of interest for detailed modeling, desired model complexity, plant scale/capacity/lifetime/power specification, air/water emission limits, fuel origin, local conditions, economic factors consideration, functional unit for analysis etc. The design basis for the case is developed in accordance with the CESAR [2] project and constitutes defining design criteria for the power plant, CO2 capture unit and CO2 compression unit. The expected outcomes from the EDD analysis, as technical, economic and environmental performance indicators are decided. Selected parameters for scope settings and design basis are presented in Table 1. Figure 2. System area layout for the MEA case A system area layout (figure 2) was developed to facilitate the analysis and represents the system boundary for the assessment. The whole system is divided into 10 inter-linked system areas. While the environmental analysis considers all 10 system areas, the technical analysis is limited to plant fence i.e. power generation, flue gas 7432 Bhawna Singh et al. / Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 treatment, CO2 capture and CO2 compression (system area 5 to 8) and the economic analysis considers CO2 transport and storage (system area 9 and 10) in addition to the system areas considered in technical analysis. Table 1. Selected parameters for the case: scope and design basis Parameter Unit Value Scope Plant output (gross) Plant capacity Plant lifetime Load hours Parameter Unit Value Power plant - design basis MW §800 % 80 year 25 h/year 7000 Emission limits CESAR [2] Functional unit per kWh Boiler efficiency % 95 Mechanical efficiency % 99.6 Generator efficiency % 98.5 CO2 capture rate % 90 Solvent mass fraction % 30 Absorber pressure bar 1.148 0.048 CO2 capture unit - design basis Absorber pressure drop bar Lean solvent temperature o C 30 Reboiler steam pressure bar 3.1 Compressor mechanical efficiency % 99.6 Pump efficiency % 75 CO2 outlet pressure bar 110 Compression unit – design basis 2.2.2. Phase 1- Information compilation In this phase, technical, economic and environmental data, information available in literature for the MEA based CCS case and generic information on different system areas is collected and organized. Pedigree matrices [3] for each research area (technical/economic/environmental) are developed and used as a tool to assess quality of data/information and quality of the knowledge base of different system areas is assessed. Based on the information, a decision is taken in the models that are to be used for the assessment in each research area. 2.2.3. Phase 2- Modeling In this phase technical, economic and environmental modeling of the system is undertaken. Technical modeling covers simulation of system areas 5 to 8 i.e. at the plant site, while the economic and environmental modeling simulates all 10 system areas at different levels of complexity. Models are selected for each system area simulation depending on the data/information available and, for the present case studied, can be characterized as mid to high level complexity, except for the models used flue gas treatment and MEA degradation in the CO2 capture unit which have low quality. To assess the cost indicators economic modeling utilizes information on equipment sizing and other operation requirements as produced in the technical modeling. For environmental assessment, process based life cycle inventory is modeled using process stream data from technical modeling for system area 5 to 8 and best available estimates based on the scope and literature for other system areas, with Ecoinvent v2.2 database as background. The functional unit for the LCA is chosen as 1 kWh of the net electricity produced. Quality of the results is evaluated using the developed pedigree matrices. 2.2.3. Phase 3- Performance indicators Technical and economic performance indicators identified in the scoping phase are evaluated and analyzed. For environmental indicator evaluation, ReCiPe v1.08 [4] characterization method is applied to the life cycle inventory modeled in phase 2. Additional characterization factors for MEA degradation emissions related human toxicity are obtained from USETox [5] and Veltman et al. 2010 [6]. 7433 Bhawna Singh et al. / Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 3. Results and discussion Table 2. Performance indicators Indicator Unit w CCS w/o CCS % change Technical Gross power output MWe 719 833 -14 Parasitic load MWe 118 57 107 Net power output MWe 601 776 -23 Gross efficiency LHV % 42.7 49.5 -14 Net efficiency LHV % 35.7 46.1 -23 kg/MWh 95 734 -87 Regeneration heat GJ/tCO2 3.9 - - SPECCA GJ/tCO2 3.6 - - Specific cooling water use kg/MWe 60 34 76 CO2 intensity Economic CAPEX kEUR 2191348 1622910 35 capex EUR/kW 3646 2091 74 OPEX annual kEUR 187203 150557 24 EUR/MWh 44.5 27.8 60 opex CoE EUR/MWh 96.2 57.4 68 Capture cost EUR/tonne CO2 48.1 - - Avoided cost EUR/tonne CO2 65.5 - -68 Environmental Climate change climate change kg CO2 eq 2.7E-01 8.6E-01 Typical non-CC terrestrial acidification kg SO2 eq 2.2E-03 1.8E-03 21 particulate matter formation kg PM10 eq 4.9E-01 3.8E-01 29 photo oxidant formation kg NMVOC 1.9E-03 1.5E-03 29 freshwater eutrophication kg P eq 5.4E-04 4.1E-04 30 marine eutrophication kg N eq 2.1E-04 1.5E-04 38 Toxicity Resource depletion Land use change Others human toxicity kg 1,4-DB eq 3.4E-01 2.6E-01 31 terrestrial eco-toxicity kg 1,4-DB eq 1.9E-05 1.0E-05 90 35 freshwater eco-toxicity kg 1,4-DB eq 8.9E-03 6.6E-03 marine eco-toxicity kg 1,4-DB eq 8.5E-03 6.5E-03 32 fossil depletion kg oil eq 2.4E-01 1.8E-01 32 metal depletion kg Fe eq 6.3E-03 4.1E-03 53 water depletion m3 5.7E-01 3.1E-01 83 land transformation m2 7.3E-05 5.0E-05 46 Agricultural land occupation m2a 1.2E-02 9.5E-03 31 urban land occupation m2a 6.8E-03 5.2E-03 30 kg CFC-11 eq 1.1E-08 8.0E-09 41 kg U235 eq 3.1E-02 2.2E-02 40 CO2 kg 2.2E-01 8.2E-01 -73 SO2 kg 9.5E-04 9.4E-04 0 NOx kg 1.7E-03 1.3E-03 30 ozone depletion ionizing radiation Emissions PM < 2.5μm kg 4.4E-01 3.4E-01 29 PM > 10μm kg 1.2E+0 9.5E-01 29 COD kg 4.3E-04 2.7E-04 60 7434 Bhawna Singh et al. / Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 Table 2 presents results for the technical, economic and environmental performance indicators for the studied case. Table 3 presents the quality analysis for LCA as part of the environmental due diligence assessment and Figure 3 presents the contribution analysis for climate change potential (CCP) together with the quality aspect, in a presentation format developed in the project. 3.1. Overall performance indicators Technical performance indicators shown in table 2 point out a drop of 175 MW in net power output (with CO2 capture system) resulting in a reduction of 10.4% points in net efficiency of the plant. Analysis of the power losses show that the major power loss is in the MEA reboiler unit (114 MW), while the parasitic load from CO2 compressors and feed water pumps adds another 72.5 MW loss. Specific Primary Energy Consumption for CO2 Avoided SPECCA for the power plant with MEA system is calculated to be 3.6 GJ/tCO2 and the cooling water use is found to increase by 76% in the CCS case as compared to without CCS. These results are in range with those reported in the literature. Economic performance indicators (table 2) show a 74% increase in CAPEX per kW output (compared to a power plant without CCS), and an increase of 60% in operating cost for per unit net product. Thus with a MEA based CCS system the cost of electricity increases by 68% to 0.057€/kWh. Further analysis for the cost of electricity shows that for a system without CCS, the main cost drivers are the coal supply and power generation unit; while for a system with CCS, in addition to the coal supply and power generation unit, the flue gas treatment and capture unit also contribute significantly to the cost (26% of the CoE). Environmental performance indicators (table 2) show that although there is a significant decrease in CCP and CO2 emissions, the CCS system has increased scores on all other impacts and emissions. With CCS the CCP decreases by 68% while non-CCP impacts increase by 21%-38% with the highest increase in marine eutrophication. Toxicity impacts increase by 31-90% with the highest increase in terrestrial eco-toxicity and 31% increase in human toxicity. Resource depletion impacts increase by 32-83% with the highest increase in water depletion and the land use impacts increase by 30-46%. The degree of trade-offs in non-CCP impacts require further investigation to understand the relevance of these increases for overall comparison and to obtain clear indicators for decision making. Among the considered emissions, CO2 emission is reduced by 73% in CCS case, and although the additional fuel combustion releases additional SO2 emissions, the co-capture of SO2 in the MEA absorption process results in a no net increase. 3.2. Quality analysis for environmental assessment Table 3. Life cycle inventory data quality for the MEA based CCS case Table 3 shows the quality of the inventory data used in the LCA. The table provides quality scores on the attributes of source reliability, representativeness, robustness and completeness. The ‘strength’ of the quality scores, based on the attributes, increases from 0 to 4 and is also given in the table as colored codes. Since the MEA case has being quite extensively analyzed in the open LCA literature, the quality of inventory data for the basic system areas of power generation and capture unit is of good quality. However the quality of inventory data for other system Bhawna Singh et al. / Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 7435 areas is assessed from poor to low. The procedure applied to the case analysis within the EDD framework allowed to identify those aspects of the inventory data that needed to be improved to fulfil the scope goals. Table 2 shows that there is a general improvement in the LCI as obtained by EDD process with noticeable improvement in capture and transport unit and significant improvement in coal processing and utilities. The quality of power generation unit is unaltered due to already good understanding of this area in the existing literature. 3.3. Contribution analysis – Climate Change Potential Figure 3. Process contribution analysis with quality indicators for climate change potential 7436 Bhawna Singh et al. / Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 7429 – 7436 Figure 3 presents the process contribution and quality analysis of CC indicator for electricity generation technology with CCS. The core circle in the two graphs gives the absolute CC score, which is 68% lower in the case of CCS option (with a net CC potential of 271 g CO2eq/kWh). The second ring (from centre) in the graphs represents the contribution of different system areas as defined in the detailed scoping phase. It shows that power generation (system area 5) and feedstock production chain (system area 1) appear as the main contributors to the impact in both the cases. The third ring in the graphs represents contribution of processes within a system e.g., for system area 1 (feedstock chain) consisting of coal mine, mining, transport and other processes. In the case without CCS (figure not presented) 86% of the total CCP is from coal combustion (system area 5 – power generation) and 12% from coal mining and related processes (system area 1 – feedstock). In the CCS case, 48% of the CCP score is from coal mining and related process, while 39% is from coal combustion and CO2 capture (to discount for CO2 capture process). The outer ring in the graphs represents the quality scores for specific system areas. Quality scores for all system areas is evaluated as good to high and is presented in light to dark green (refer to quality colour codes in table 3). 4. Conclusion This article presented the outline of the developed framework and the first case study results, which will be used as benchmark to compare results with other CO2 capture case studies. 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