EMERGING CO2 CAPTURE TECHNOLOGIES WORKSHOP «MemCCC-Membrane Based CO2 Capture at the Cement Industry» Part1: «The Fixed-Site-Carrier Membrane – Background» Presenter: May-Britt Hägg – Professor NTNU Part 2: «Air Products and the MemCCC project» Presenters: Tom Cantero – General Manager / Air Products Svein G. Nodeland – Process Manager / Air Products
26th – 27th January – CLIMIT / Scandic Oslo Airport
Part I: The Fixed-Site-Carrier-Membrane - Background A composite membrane; PVAm (polyvinylamine) on PSf (polysulfone) • Facilitated CO2-transport is the dominating mechanism
For best performance: • Presence of water is needed • Driving force by using vacuum on permeate side • High feed flow rate
CO2 H 2O H 2CO3
H 2 CO3 NH 2 H CO3 NH3
H CO3 NH3 H 2 CO3 NH 2 H 2CO3 H 2O CO2
• Flux equation
DA,c DA JA cA,0 cA,l cAC ,0 cAC ,l l l Right hand side: 1st term: solution-diffusion mechanism 2nd term: facilitated transport
B (N2, O2) CO2
Support
Selective layer l
Feed
B
H2O NH2
B CO2
CO2 HCO3NH3+
PVAm
Permeate
H2O NH2
CO2
The long road forward - FSC-Membrane / a review • From lab to pilot 2000 – 2016: 4th step (-> 2013): preparing for hollow fiber module in lab
1st step (2008): Lab, d=5-7 cm
2nd step (2011): benchpilot, Flat sheets, 0.5 m2 3rd step (2012 2014): Small pilot, Flat sheets –> 2m2 Power plant + Cement factory
Commercial type HF modules (AP)
5th step (2013current): joining forces with Air Products in two projects, preparing: 2013: Rig at Tiller 2015: Rig at NORCEM Hollow fibers, 4,2 – 10 m2
Meanwhile: Testing the membrane for flue gas at EDP’s coal fired power plant in Sines -Portugal EU-project NanoGloWa 2007-12 Exposure time: ~8 months No detoriation of the membranes detected Membrane regained performance after outages of plant When temperature control failed, RH and performance went down, but was regained with temperature control in place When FDG and SCR fell out at short intervals, the membrane could tolerate this increase in SO2 and NOx content
Most important lesson learnt: Durability of membrane was fine over this exposure time!
Flat Sheets - Membrane Area: 1,5 m2 Flue Gas Composition: 12% CO2, 6% O2, saturated H2O (at 50 C) SO2 < 200 mg/Nm3 (with FGD) NOx < 200 mg/Nm3 (with SCR)
Testing the membrane for flue gas at NORCEM 2014 – flat sheet module System – one membrane stage: • Remotely monitored container • Temperature and humidity control • Pretreatment (filters) • Prototype membrane flat sheet module • Vacuum system • Analytics: T, P, RH, flow, composition Consortium:DNV-KEMA, Yodfat, Sintef, NTNU Most important Lessons Learnt: The permeate CO2-conc reached > 70vol% The membrane tolerated plant outages Temp.control important to avoid condens. System robustness needs improvement The flat sheet module does not give optimum flow patters for separation – hollow fibers or spiral-wound next stage
Going from Flat Sheets to Hollow Fibers 2012 – NTNU invests in a fairly large spinning – coating machine for hollow fibers 2013 – proudly showing the in-house made modules containing 250 PVAm coated PSf hollow fibers -but quickly we understand we cannot do this scaling up by ourselves…but it was great learning!
Scaling up – with Hollow Fiber Modules Steep learning curve! • 2013: realizing we need professional help, and we join forces with Air Products, US
Challenging: • The modules are delivered with fibers ready mounted in the modules – at NTNU we slowly develop the technique with «in-situ» coating – • With the aim of obtaining suitable thickness selective layer, and avoid the fibers stick together
Slowly moving from 0,8 4,2 10 m2 (here Arne & Maria)
2015: Air Products, Norway, joins MemCCC project started 2015; with AP as coordinator Part 2 of presentation
Part 2: Air Products and the MemCCC project First a few words about our membrane company Presenter: Tom Cantero / General Manager
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Air Products Inc. Multinational Corporation producing Industrial Gases, Chemicals, and Energy / Environmental Systems
World Headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania
European Headquarters in Hersham, UK
+10 Billion Dollars in Sales World’s 4th larges industrial gas company
Operation in over 40 Countries Apx. 20,000 Employees Fortune 500 company
Strives to obtain Best safety record of any Industrial Gas company
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Air Products AS – Norway Established 1970 Engineering and manufacturing company specializing in gas production and processing systems for the Marine, Offshore and Petrochemical industries. Part of Air Products’ global operations.
Centre of excellence for marine and other industry spec.-compliant systems. In-company manufacturing of membranes (USA)
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Continuous product development
1984 The world’s first
2015 >1500 marine systems later Slide 11
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The world leader for N2 generators
2008 90% 2014 GLOBAL MARKET SHARE, LNG CARRIERS
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The New Project: MemCCC – 2015 - 2017 Presenter: Svein G. Nodeland /Process Manager Flue gas CO2-capture with Hollow fiber modules 10 m2 or 2x5 m2
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A brief look into the container being shipped to NORCEM early February 2016
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Air Products has experience in large membrane systems – here Prelude FPSO
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Main Components in the test rig • • • • • • •
Container Ambient air monitoring Cooler Filters Compressor Vacuum Pump Membrane Separators (Hollow Fibers) • Gas analysers • Flow meters Slide 19
System Design Factors • Feed Gas (upstream) – Condensation – Corrosion – Gas composition • Operating Parameters – Pressure – Temperature – Flow Rates • Standard Used – All CE marked – PED as required – Designed/fabricated based on 35 yrs experience – ISO 9001-2008
Simplified process flow diagram
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Production Schedule Incl. HAZOP
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MARKET • Process Industry (Cement & Steel Worldwide) • Power Stations (Coal Fired Worldwide) COMMERCIALIZATION • Business Plan not yet developed. • Technology Qualification Process ends January 2017 • Commercial product will include extensive Norwegian Content. Slide 22
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Thank you for your attention! Ackowlegdement to our co-workers at NTNU and Air Products; Likewise collaborating partners at Sintef and NORCEM, and further to Gassnova for funding of this exciting project
ADDRESS/CONTACTS Aftersales/Spare part/Services e-mail:
[email protected] WEB-site: http://www.airproducts.no Telephone main office: +47 38 03 99 00
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