Development and Demonstration of an Adsorption-based System for Post-combustion Carbon Capture

Professors Farooq and Karimi were awarded a S$1.77 Million grant by A*STAR under CCU TSRP recently. A brief summary of their proposal follows:

Mankind will continue to use fossil fuel until it is exhausted. CO2 capture and sequestration (CCS) is, therefore, the critical enabling technology to arrest the climate changes, until zero emission technologies become widely acceptable. This project aims to (i) develop, optimize and demonstrate an adsorption-based technology for post-combustion carbon capture from power plant flue gas at a pilot plant scale, and (ii) assess carbon capture economics by combining rigorous costing with system analysis. The proposed work will span the full range of activities from adsorbent characterization to rigorous process modelling and optimization to pilot plant demonstration culminating in a comprehensive economic analysis of a CO2 capture system for power plant flue gas. It is a collaborative effort with NTU and ICES where expertise in adsorption science and technology, process systems engineering and pilot plant R&D necessary to address the techno-economic challenges implicit in the problem have been brought together. The project will lead to both fundamental and applied advances to the state-of-the art.