Post-Combustion Carbon Capture
General Information
- Description
- Benefits
Post-combustion carbon capture means scrubbing the CO2 from the flue gas of fossil-fired power plants. It represents one of several technologies to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fired power plants in oder to mitigate climate change. Siemens offers a proprietary process using amino-acid salt formulations, the PostCap process, for post-combustion carbon capture. Post-combustion carbon capture can be applied in new power plants, but also retrofitted to existing power plants. Furthermore, new power plants can be planned capture-ready in order to enable or facilitate later retrofit of a post-combustion carbon capture plant.
PostCapTM, the Siemens Post-Combustion Technology (6 min.)
Your benefits from Siemens technology
- Siemens technology for your whole process chain – from power generation to flue-gas cleaning and CO2 scrubbing as well as CO2 compression for pipeline transport
Your benefits from Siemens expertise
- Siemens chemical engineering know-how
- Optimized efficiency of fossil-fired power plants
- PostCap carbon capture technology with low energy demand and lowest emissions
- Capture-ready and retrofit solutions for power plants
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Capture Ready Assessment
- Description
Future new-built fossil-fired power plants should be ready for the incorporation of a carbon capture plant at a later date, i.e. they should be “capture ready”. In the EU capture-ready assessment is mandatory for new fossil-fired power plants > 300 MW. Siemens has defined all capture-ready measures for standard steam power plants and combined cycle power plants.
For the power plant itself the assessment will encompass:
- Reservation of sufficient area on site for later retrofit of the CO2 capture unit including CO2 compression and all other plant integration measures as well as for the retrofit construction period.
- Assessment of the economic and technical aspects for the later retrofit and integration of the CO2 capture unit – different options for the respective retrofit strategies.
In the capture-ready assessment further tasks have to be pursued:
- Indication and evaluation of potential storage sites reasonably accessible to the project
- Evaluation of viable storage options
Transport and storage of captured CO2 needs to be investigated and verified by the project owner.