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Process optimization of post-combustion carbon capture for NGCC power plants based on waste heat recovery and liquefied natural gas cold energy utilization
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Ting LEI, Youcai LIANG, Yan ZHU, Kai YE, Xunjie LING, Jinneng DING, Chengxian HU
Thermal Power Generation | 2025, 54(6) : 194 - 203
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Thermal Power Generation | 2025, 54(6): 194-203
System integration, sequestration and policy- economic analysis
Process optimization of post-combustion carbon capture for NGCC power plants based on waste heat recovery and liquefied natural gas cold energy utilization
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Ting LEI, Youcai LIANG, Yan ZHU, Kai YE, Xunjie LING, Jinneng DING, Chengxian HU
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  • School of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Published: 2025-06-25 doi: 10.19666/j.rlfd.202411229
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Post-combustion carbon capture is the underpinning technology and necessary choice for low-carbon power generation, yet its integration into natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants will significantly reduce the plants’ power generation efficiency. In order to reduce the efficiency penalty of the power plants integrated with decarbonization system and improve the energy utilization efficiency of the integrated system, a novel post-combustion carbon capture process that comprehensively recovers the waste heat and liquefied natural gas cold energy is innovatively proposed. Firstly, the key operating parameters of the conventional carbon capture process, including stripper pressure and lean solvent loading, are optimized with sensitivity analysis. On this basis, design and evaluation of novel process is performed. In the novel process, a back-pressure turbine is utilized to recover the pressure energy of the extracted low-pressure steam and assist the lean vapor compression as well as recover the inter-cooling heat of CO2 compression to heat the reflux condensate of the stripper, which reduces the minimum regeneration energy consumption by 17.3% (to 3.35 GJ) at the flash pressure drop of 90 kPa. Furthermore, the extracted low-pressure steam is reduced from 68.40 kg/s to 48.95 kg/s by recovering the superheat of steam extraction. Aiming at solving the problems of high energy consumption of the conventional CO2 compression process and the waste of cold energy in the liquefied natural gas regasification process, a novel CO2 two-stage compression and intermediate liquefication process is proposed, reducing compression work by 34.5%, and the cooling load and the number of equipment were significantly decreased. Exergy analysis results show that the exergy efficiencies of the novel carbon capture process and CO2 compression process increase from 23.12% and 62.19% to 29.48% and 65.96%, respectively. The simulation results show that, the net power output of the plant integrated with the novel carbon capture process increases from 341.93 MW to 358.75 MW, resulting in a significant energy saving by increasing the net power output efficiency from 48.85% to 51.25% and decreasing the efficiency penalty from 13.77% to 9.53%.

natural gas combined cycle power plant  /  post-combustion carbon capture  /  process configuration modification  /  efficiency penalty  /  liquefied natural gas cold energy utilization
Ting LEI, Youcai LIANG, Yan ZHU, Kai YE, Xunjie LING, Jinneng DING, Chengxian HU. Process optimization of post-combustion carbon capture for NGCC power plants based on waste heat recovery and liquefied natural gas cold energy utilization[J]. Thermal Power Generation, 2025 , 54 (6) : 194 -203 . DOI: 10.19666/j.rlfd.202411229
  • Guangdong High-level Talent Project(2021QN02L165)
  • Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2024ZYGXZR019)
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doi: 10.19666/j.rlfd.202411229
  • Receive Date:2024-11-07
  • Online Date:2026-03-05
  • Published:2025-06-25
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  • Received:2024-11-07
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Guangdong High-level Talent Project(2021QN02L165)
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2024ZYGXZR019)
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    School of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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