CO₂ Capture from Medium Scale Combustion Installations
- 1 July 2007
- Capture
The study assesses the costs and performance of medium-scale CO₂ capture technologies The focus is on CO₂ capture from medium-scale power generation systems, from medium-scale systems for industrial heat production and from medium-scale combined heat and power systems. Other industrial processes which produce CO₂, such as cement, metallurgical and petrochemical processes are not considered in this study With respect to the size, we focus on novel technologies which will become available on the longer term, because it is expected that CO₂ is only likely to be captured from medium-scale sources when most large-scale capture opportunities have been exhausted. An exception is the MEA scrubbing technology which is currently used in industrial applications at a scale of 50 to 400 kt per year. The study only considers new systems and does not consider retrofit systems.