Design of an Integrated CSP-Calcium Looping for Uninterrupted Power Production Through Energy Storage

Solar driven large scale uninterrupted power production can be accomplished with a combination of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant and a Thermochemical Energy Storage (TCES) based on a Calcium Looping (CaL) process. Thermal energy can be stored in the form of chemical energy due to calcination r...

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Main Authors: Evgenios Karasavvas, Kyriakos D. Panopoulos, Simira Papadopoulou, Spyros Voutetakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 2018-08-01
Series:Chemical Engineering Transactions
Online Access:https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/786
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author Evgenios Karasavvas
Kyriakos D. Panopoulos
Simira Papadopoulou
Spyros Voutetakis
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description Solar driven large scale uninterrupted power production can be accomplished with a combination of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant and a Thermochemical Energy Storage (TCES) based on a Calcium Looping (CaL) process. Thermal energy can be stored in the form of chemical energy due to calcination reaction and released back as thermal energy during the carbonation reaction (CaO + CO2 ↔ CaCO3). This paper presents the preliminarily design, integration, and simulation of such process plant in AspenPlusTM by considering solar energy in the system. This includes indirect solar heated calcination by explicitly heating up CO2 at high temperatures at a concentrated solar heat exchanger (receiver), where CO2 is directly imported into the calciner not only to preheat solids, but to provide the appropriate energy for the highly endothermic calcination reaction. The global efficiency of the integrated system reaches 31.5 %. A parametric analysis is presented on the effects of key parameters, such as the carbonation pressure, the CO2 inlet temperature to calciner, and CaO storage temperature.
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spelling doaj.art-172aaf72dad5418288782bee0af0b06c2022-12-22T04:14:50ZengAIDIC Servizi S.r.l.Chemical Engineering Transactions2283-92162018-08-017010.3303/CET1870356Design of an Integrated CSP-Calcium Looping for Uninterrupted Power Production Through Energy StorageEvgenios KarasavvasKyriakos D. PanopoulosSimira PapadopoulouSpyros VoutetakisSolar driven large scale uninterrupted power production can be accomplished with a combination of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant and a Thermochemical Energy Storage (TCES) based on a Calcium Looping (CaL) process. Thermal energy can be stored in the form of chemical energy due to calcination reaction and released back as thermal energy during the carbonation reaction (CaO + CO2 ↔ CaCO3). This paper presents the preliminarily design, integration, and simulation of such process plant in AspenPlusTM by considering solar energy in the system. This includes indirect solar heated calcination by explicitly heating up CO2 at high temperatures at a concentrated solar heat exchanger (receiver), where CO2 is directly imported into the calciner not only to preheat solids, but to provide the appropriate energy for the highly endothermic calcination reaction. The global efficiency of the integrated system reaches 31.5 %. A parametric analysis is presented on the effects of key parameters, such as the carbonation pressure, the CO2 inlet temperature to calciner, and CaO storage temperature.https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/786
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Simira Papadopoulou
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Chemical Engineering Transactions
title Design of an Integrated CSP-Calcium Looping for Uninterrupted Power Production Through Energy Storage
title_full Design of an Integrated CSP-Calcium Looping for Uninterrupted Power Production Through Energy Storage
title_fullStr Design of an Integrated CSP-Calcium Looping for Uninterrupted Power Production Through Energy Storage
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title_short Design of an Integrated CSP-Calcium Looping for Uninterrupted Power Production Through Energy Storage
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