Abstract
Post-combustion CO2 capture plants include high costs that are associated with intense energy consumption. Heat pumps can recover heat from the flue gas and other sources in the CO2 emitting plant and upgrade it to reduce the use of fossil-based steam. The few studies regarding heat pumps in CO2 capture systems include arbitrary selection among limited working fluids, without optimizing the underlying cycle. This work implements a multi-criteria investigation of the performance of 20 working fluids for vapor compression heat pumps (VCHP) and 21 refrigerant/absorber pairs for absorption heat transformers (AHT), considering the operating optimization of each cycle for each fluid. A cascade cycle combining the two configurations (AHT-VCHP) is proposed, using the optimum fluids cyclopentane and water/potassium nitrate identified for the VCHP and the AHT. The annual operating costs are higher than the annualized capital expenditures. The proposed fluids outperform the conventional options. The VCHP with cyclopentane covers 58 % (2.68 GJ/t CO2) of the reboiler duty with recovered heat and exhibits the lowest cost of $33.8/tCO2. This is $18.7/tCO2 lower than the cost of the conventional direct contact cooling unit that is used in capture plants. The VCHP remains competitive for up to 57 % increase in the electricity price.
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