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A full-scale staged pressurized oxy-biomass combustion towards BECCS: Performance assessment via CFD approach

  • Release Time:2025-10-16
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  • Date: 

    2025-10-16
  • Title of Paper: 

    A full-scale staged pressurized oxy-biomass combustion towards BECCS: Performance assessment via CFD approach
  • Journal: 

    ENERGY
  • Summary: 

    Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has garnered significant attention as one of the most advantageous technologies for achieving negative carbon emissions. Staged, pressurized oxy-combustion (SPOC) technology is one of the most efficient oxy-combustion technologies, which improves the net plant efficiency by controlling stoichiometric ratio to reduce the energy consumption of the flue gas recirculation unit. Staged, pressurized oxy-biomass combustion (SPOBC) is a novel and promising BECCS technology while there is little knowledge about it. This study simulates a 550 MW SPOBC boiler by ASPEN Plus and CFD model. The results show that net plant efficiency of SPOBC is higher than that of the coal SPOC boiler. NO emission of SPOBC is only 101.3 ppm. Sulfur content in biomass is 0.05 %, which is only 3.5 % of nitrogen content. Consequently, SO2 emissions are nearly zero. This implies that energy consumption of direct contact column (DCC) in SPOBC system is reduced, leading to a significant reduction in its desulfurization and denitrification costs. CFD modeling results show that wall heat flux of SPOBC is uniform and in a safe range, suggesting that high-efficient combustion can be achieved in SPOBC boiler. This study is beneficial for achieving efficient CO2 capture and ultra-low pollutant emissions while achieving negative carbon emissions.
  • Co-author: 

    Li Xiangdong, Lin Hui, Wang Guan, Dai Gaofeng, Chen Yong Qiang, Luo Yong, Zhang Yili, Zhang Jiaye, Tan Houzhang, Axelbaum Richard L., Wang Xuebin
  • Volume: 

    326
  • Translation or Not: 

    No
  • Date of Publication: 

    2025-07-01