UKCCSRC PACT

OVERVIEW

UK –Canada-Norway Meeting on CO2 Capture Technology

Oslo, 19-20 March 2015

M. Pourkashanian B. Anthony and M. Lucquiaud Members of PACT Consortium

About UKCCSRC PACT • Pilot-scale Advanced Capture Technology facilities

– Funded by: DECC and EPSRC – Partners: Cranfield, Edinburgh, Imperial, Leeds, Nottingham,

Sheffield – Part of: UK Carbon Capture & Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC)

• Scope: Specialist national facilities for research in advanced fossil-fuel energy, bioenergy and carbon capture technologies – Comprehensive range of pilot-scale facilities – Supporting specialist research and analytical facilities – Leading academic expertise

• Aim: Support and catalyse industrial and academic R&D to accelerate the development and commercialisation of novel low carbon technologies

• Objectives – Bridge gap between bench-scale R&D and industrial pilot trials – Provide shared access to industry and academia

Operational stats

• Design & Installation from March 2012; operating since August 2013

• Officially opened in June 2014 by the Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, DECC Minister of State for Energy

• ~800 visitors from over 256 organisations including over 65 academic and over 200 industrial and other organisations

• 707 test days allocated to end of financial year 2016/17; over 150% utilised.

• 16 R&D projects and 2 doctoral training centres with total value of over £34m and PACT income of over £2.4m.

Core facility overview • Setup costs

– Total setup cost £6.3m – 3.0m total funding from DECC – 3.3m total contribution from Institutions and research groups

• Operational income – To date £2.4m of operational income till 2017-2018 – Involved in £32m of research and training activity – 16 project with total value of £24m and income to PACT of £2.1m – 2 DTC with total value of £8m with £300k income to PACT

• Utilisation: – To date 700 days allocated to current/committed projects till 2018 – Nearly 40% utilised with utilisation rate at 170% of planned

• Visits/ presentations – 756 visitors to the facility from 256 organisations including 65

academic and over 200 industrial and other organisations – Around 30 national/international presentations on PACT to a total

estimated audience of 1100

• 4 Facility Sites

• PACT Office

PACT Cranfield Facilities • 150kW PF Air/Oxy Rig • CO2 Transport Flow Rig • 50kW Chemical Looping Facility • 750kW Gas Turbine Burner with deposition probes • 300kW Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustor/Gasifier

PACT Edinburgh Facilities Advanced Capture Technology Transportable Remotely-Operated Mini-Lab (ACTTROM)

PACT Office •Admin & Business Centre of UKCCSRC PACT •Business and stakeholder engagement •Office for users accessing facility •Computer modelling facilities •CPD & training

PACT Core Facilities • 1 tCO2/day Solvent-Based Capture Plant • 250kW Air-fired Coal/Biomass Rig • 250kW Oxyfuel Coal/Biomass Rig • 330kW Gas CHP Turbines • Gas Mixing Facility (synthetic flue/process gas) • Online Monitoring, • Analytical & Lab Facilities

UKCCSRC PACT Locations

PACT Nottingham Facilities •Analytical Facility in CCS and Unconventional Gas •GC-MS, LC-MS & IC for capture solvent analysis •Thermal analysis: DSC, TGA, TG-MS, HP TGA •Solid state NMR •Optical microscopy •Modular 800C, 100bar flow reactor •Milling equipment with powders physical analysis

• Advanced Capture Testing in a Transportable Remotely-Operated Mini-lab (ACCTROM)

• Integrated carbon capture media testing laboratory

• Facility is transported to the test site and connected to directly to onsite flue gasses for testing

• Long-term on-site testing of CO2 capture media on real flue gases specific to a given process under a range of temperature and flue gas environments with a possibility of multiple parallel tests

• Remotely monitored and operated

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Edinburgh PACT Facilities

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ACTTROM: System Description

Self-contained, standard chemical storage unit Capacity: 25-50 m3 of flue gas per day Meets DSEAR and COSHH regulations. Deployed and hosted on industrial site; host

provide: flat site, supply of flue gas, electricity and internet connection.

What’s in the “Box”?

A number of small‐scale units for carbon capture media testing; operated in parallel

Accelerated degradation testing units to examine system characteristics on exposure to real flue gases

Modular units for flue gas conditioning Hot and cold water supplies for test rig

temperature control. Remote access control and data logging

unit with video stream through a wireless internet link, allowing scientists anywhere in the country to monitor and control their experiments.

• 750kWth Burner Rig for Gas Turbine Hot Gas Path Research

• 350kWth Circulating Fluidised Bed Facility

• 50kWth Chemical/Ca Looping Facility

• 150kWth Pulverised Fuel

• Combustion Rig Dense-phase CO2 Flow Loop

Cranfield PACT Facilities

350kWth Circulating Fluidised Bed Facility

Cranfield PACT Facilities

UK’s largest Circulating Fluidized Bed test facilities, operated flexibly in combustion gasification oxy-fuel-fired mode, with full exhaust gas

recycle (EGR), with both dry and wet flue gas. Sampling/feed ports permitting full solid, liquid and

gas sampling with conditioning units Probing for in situ temperature, pressure and gas

concentration measurements Automated, gas supply and mixing system. Hot and cold gas cleaning Gas leak safety detection system Fuel feed metering system, advanced flow meters continuous ash removal system.

50kW Chemical Looping Combustion Plant

Cranfield PACT Facilities

Largest such pilot unit in the UK, flexibility operated as

dual fluidized bed system, circulating solids between the bed riser and a downcomer,

single entrained flow riser with a two bubbling beds Equipped with sampling/feed ports, thermocouples,

pressure probes and advanced flow meters Hot viewing windows at several locations for flow

characteristics and particle transfer research Fully automated gas supply and mixing system Advanced bag house filters Extensive range of gas analysers with gas conditioning unit Applications:

small and large industrial gasification systems, combustion applications and reforming processes, converting biomass/wastes to energy and syngas Cranfield is also exploring the possibility of using CLC

for oxygen separation

PACT Nottingham facility overview

Analytical Facility in CCS and Unconventional Gas • GC-MS, LC-MS and ion chromatography to or

the characterisation of post combustion capture capture solvents

• A range of thermal analysis equipment, including DSC, TGA coupled to GC-MS and high pressure TGA for investigating fundamentals of DE volatilisation and combustion

• Solid state NMR • Optical microscopy • A modular high pressure and temperature

flow reactor system, enabling enable CO2 utilisation and geological

• Milling equipment with continuous powder physical analysis.

Carbon Capture Plant

UKCCSRC Pilot Advanced Capture Test (PACT) Facilities www.pact.ac.uk

Additional facilities at Cranfield, Edinburgh, Nottingham

1. 1tCO2/day Carbon Capture Plant

1. Gas Mixing Facility (GMF) synthetic flue/process

1. 300kW (CHP)Gas Turbines

PACT Core Facility

4. 250kW Air Combustion Plant

5. 250kW Oxyfuel Combustion Plant real/simulated EGR

6. Analytical facilities: online monitoring and analytical labs

Integrated facilities

250kW Air/Oxy Rig

• Modulate real flue composition or generate synthetic flue /industrial process gas

• Connected directly to the Solvent-based Carbon Capture Plant

• Carbon capture from a variety of combustion, gasification processes and Industrial CCS

Gas Mixing Facility Gas Mixing Facility

• 250kWth, rig for coal/biomass (and gas) • Advanced fossil-fuel energy research • Bioenergy research • Post combustion capture • Oxyfuel capture (real/simulated) • Fuel-testing: coal/biomass/co-firing • Highly instrumented

– Temperature and pressure monitoring – Combustion and deposition probes – 3D laser diagnostics and thermal imaging – Gas Analysis – Metals analysis (ICP)

• Modelling and model validation

250kW Air/Oxy Plant – Spec.

• Two Turbec T100 CHP Microturbines: – 100kWe, 170kWth

• Fuel: Natural gas, biogas, syngas, MeOH

• Analytical Facilities – GASMET FTIR flue gas analyser

– HORIBA/SIGNAL Combustion Gas Analysers

– CAMBUSTION DMS500 fast particle analyser

• Research applications

– Humid Air Turbine (HAT) Cycle

– Exhaust Gas Recirculation /selective EGR

Gas Turbine System

Plant development

• 1 tonne of CO2 per day (MEA) • Post combustion capture

• Gas/coal/biomass • Industrial CCS

• Alternative solvent development • Solvent degradation and

emissions research • Benchmarking & energy

requirements • Validation of baseline economics • Integrated systems modelling

and model validation

Carbon Capture Plant

Structured packing and absorber column

• 28 PACKED SECTIONS (6.5m)

• 2 PROBES PER SECTION GAS/LIQUID ANALYSIS + T + P (56 SAMPLING POINTS)

• 3 CAMERA PORTS

FLEXIBLE OPERATION FOR WATER WASH/DCC

• Combustion MK2 fast particle size analyser

• Mobile ICP for 50+ metal analysis in flue gases

• 2 x Gasmet FTIR analysers for up to 25 compounds

• Signal/Horiba combustion gas analyser suite

• PerkinElmer® 2400 SII CHNS/O Elemental Analyser

• PerkinElmer® GC MS

• PerkinElmer® Pyris 1 TG and TG-MS

• PerkinElmer® FT-IR and TG-IR

• Portable SERVOFLEX CO2 and O2 analysers

Analytical Facilities

1200°C

1450°C

1350°C

1300°C

1250°C

1600°C

1500°C

1400°C

1550°C

Flicker study: 200kWth air coal combustion (benchmark simulation)

Instantaneous experimental temperature distribution

Instantaneous image

1Experimental Images and data courtesy of Kent University

LES instantaneous temperature distribution

Experiments LES

Flicker (Hz) 6 - 9 5.3

m/s

PACT Operational Stats: Projects & Income

Projects Project value

(£ks)

1 RCUK-China Oxy-Coal: In-depth Studies of OxyCoal Combustion Processes through Numerical Modelling and 3D Flame Imaging

£1,040

2 EPSRC-E.ON OxyCAP UK: Oxyfuel Combustion - Academic Programme for the UK £1,740

3 FP7: RELCOM- experimental studies and modelling work to enable full-scale early demonstration oxyfuel coal combustion plant

£9,000

4 DECC: CAPSULE novel solvents for carbon capture applications £4,250

6 EPSRC: Gas-FACTS: Gas - Future Advanced Capture Technology Options £2,461

6 EPSRC: Development and Evaluation of Sustainable Technologies for Flexible Operational of Conventional Power Plants

£1,945

7 EPSRC: Process Intensification for Post-combustion Carbon Capture using Rotating Packed Bed through Systems Engineering Techniques £1,275

8 EPSRC: Selective Exhaust Gas Recirculation for Carbon Capture with Gas Turbines: Integration, Intensification, Scale-up and Optimisation. £1,100

9 NERC: Investigating the role of natural tracers in subsurface CO2 storage and monitoring £236

13 UKCCSRC CALL1: Bio-cap-uk - air/oxy biomass combustion with CO2 capture technology £751

14 UKCCSRC CALL1: Experimental investigation and CFD modelling of oxy-coal combustion on PACT facility with real flue gas and vent gas recycling £255

15 UKCCSRC CALL2: Towards more flexible power generation with CCS: pilot plant test campaigns for best practice guidelines for post-combustion capture £69

16 UKCCSRC CALL2: Investigating the radiative heat flux in small and large scale oxy-coal furnaces for CFD model development and system scale up £198

TOTALS £24,320

• Partnership agreement with Sulzer, PSE, Invensys and Zhejiang University, Energy Centre, China

• 756 visitors from over 256 organisations

• Parliamentary committee in Climate Change, Parliamentary committee in Climate Change

• Involvement in the two Doctoral training centres with 5 academic and 70 other partner organisations

• CPD programmes (UKCCSRC CPD course)

• Industry training (National Grid)

• Academic visits ( IEA GHG Summer School, CATO2, UKCCSRC,…)

• Secondments (Alstom)

PACT Operational: Partnership, Collaboration, Capacity Building & Skills

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FRESH Ideas and NEW Vision

• Planning permission granted for Factory 2050 (May 2014)

• £43 million building will combine a range of state-of-the-art technology

PACT will be within the heart of advanced manufacturing in the UK

The National Corporate Energy Lab: UKCCSRC-PACT (Energy 2050)

National “Corporate Lab” facility based at AMP (Factory 2050) that will combine conventional, nuclear and unconventional power generation research together with advanced materials, working closely with industry and governments to support both prototype and production opportunities.