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Technoeconomic assessment of China’s indirect coal liquefaction projects with different CO2 capture alternatives

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  • Zhou, Wenji
  • Zhu, Bing
  • Chen, Dingjiang
  • Zhao, Fangxian
  • Fei, Weiyang

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ICL (Indirect coal liquefaction), an alternative fuel-supplying technology, has drawn much attention and caused considerable debate in China’s energy sector. The hurdles to its development include the high risk of investment into large-scale installations, the high CO2 emissions and water resource consumption. A comprehensive assessment of ICL is urgently needed. This study provides an economic assessment and a technical analysis based on process simulations. To address the future challenge of curbing CO2 emissions, three absorption methods are compared for capturing the CO2 released from the ICL process: DMC (a novel absorbent), MEA and Rectisol. The comparative results suggest that physical absorbents, represented by Rectisol and DMC, have a remarkable advantage over chemical absorption processes, represented by MEA. The Rectisol process costs the least, while the DMC process is close to the same level. As a novel absorbent, DMC has the potential to be widely used in the future. The economic analysis of ICL predicted a high capital cost of over 35 billion yuan and an overall product cost of approximately 3800 yuan/ton for the baseline. In addition, via a sensitivity analysis, coal price, electricity price and capacity factor were identified as the three most influential factors affecting the overall product cost.

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  • Zhou, Wenji & Zhu, Bing & Chen, Dingjiang & Zhao, Fangxian & Fei, Weiyang, 2011. "Technoeconomic assessment of China’s indirect coal liquefaction projects with different CO2 capture alternatives," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 36(11), pages 6559-6566.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:36:y:2011:i:11:p:6559-6566
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.09.007
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