Abstract
Performance and economic assessments of exploitation of Athabasca bitumen coke (ABC) have been conducted to alleviate the dependence toward natural gas in bitumen recovery and upgrading. Power and hydrogen production from ABC-fed integrated gasification with combined cycle (IGCC) with CO2 capture or sequestration islands, namely, CO2 physical absorption in the Selexol process and CO2 mineral trapping (MT) with Ca(II)-bearing natural brines from local aquifers, have been analyzed. Simulations show that production costs of power (electricity and heat) and H2 from the IGCC/Selexol process are 0.0584 $/kWhe, 0.046 $/kWhh, and 1.4 $/kg H2, which could be competitive with current natural gas technologies. IGCC/Selexol outperforms the IGCC/MT process, which is reflected in larger production costs for power and H2 due to the cost of the pH-controlling reagents.
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