Natural gas power plants will play an important role in scenarios with high renewable energy input due to their clean,efficientand excellent peak-shaving capacity. Although natural gas power plants have lower carbon emission intensity compared to coal-firedpower plants,they remain a major source of global CO2 emissions. CO2 capture,utilization,and storage (CCUS) technologies areessential for achieving carbon neutrality, with post-combustion calcium looping technology drawing significant attention due to thewidespread availability and low cost of its absorbents. Traditional oxy-fuel calcium looping capture technology uses pure oxygen and fossilfuels to supply heat for the calcination process and recovers the constant-temperature heat from the carbonation reaction by directlyheating steam,resulting in high energy penalties. A novel ammonia-driven calcium looping CO2 capture system for natural gas-ammoniacomplementary power generation has been proposed,in which ammonia replaces fossil fuels as a zero-carbon fuel. This new system avoids the additional carbon capture demand caused by fossil energy heating and utilizes ammonia pyrolysis to recover medium-temperature heatreleased from the carbonation reaction, avoiding large temperature difference heat exchange losses when directly heating steam. Theresults show that,compared to traditional oxy-fuel calcium looping systems,the efficiency penalty of the new system drops from 9.4% to0.6%, and the CO2 avoided energy consumption decreases from 4.7 to −8.1 MJ/kg, significantly improving its thermodynamicperformance. At the same time,the carbon emission intensity of the new system is significantly reduced compared to the oxy-fuel calciumlooping system,reaching 18.6 kg/MWh. An analysis of the effect of gas turbine inlet temperature and pressure at ammonia side on the newsystem’s performance shows that the new system performs well across a wide range of operating parameters.
China Coal Science and Industry Group Co., Ltd
Coal Science Research Institute Co., Ltd
Coal Industry Clean Coal Engineering
Technology Research Center
XIE Qiang
YU Chang
SHI Yixiang
ZHAO Yongchun
DUAN Linbo
CAO Jingpei
ZENG Jie
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