Novel Coal/Biomass Chemical Looping Combustion Coupling with Green Hydrogen for Power and Methanol Co-Production Processes: Modeling and Techno-Economic Analysis
摘要
Coal-fired power generation is one of the main methods of electricity production around the world. However, this process suffers from large amounts of GHG emissions. Combining CO2 captured from its flue gas with green hydrogen for producing methanol is considered a promising energy pathway. To address the problem of high energy consumption in the CO2 capture, this study proposes novel coal/biomass chemical looping combustion coupling with green hydrogen for co-production of electricity and methanol processes. Results show that the net electricity efficiencies of coal, biomass, and coal-biomass chemical looping combustion power plants are 4.35, 2.63, and 3.75 percentage point higher than that of coal-fired power plant, whose efficiency is only 37.89%. In addition, the energy efficiencies of the coupling systems for co-producing electricity and methanol systems are improved from 53.02% of the basic process to 63.25%, 62.59%, and 63.02%. The net power generation and methanol output of the coupling system with coal chemical looping combustion are the highest with 688.53 MW and 386.34 t/h, while those of the coupling system with biomass chemical looping combustion are the lowest with 351.53 MW and 207.8 t/h. For the economic aspect, the methanol product costs of the coupling systems with coal, biomass, and coal-biomass chemical looping combustion are nearly 5185 RMB/t, which are 274 RMB/t lower than that of the coupling system with coal conventional combustion. The above data provide techno-economic reference for solving the high carbon emission problem of power plants and producing methanol.