Room: Callelongue Gradin
Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
Session code 4CO.15
Biomass combustion, carbon capture and modelling
Critical Review on the BECCS Development and Potential
Short Introductive summary
BECCS combines bioenergy and carbon capture, showing promise in actively reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide. To assess BECCS developments, a systematic literature review has been conducted, scrutinizing existing studies, reports, and scientific literature, evaluating technical aspects. The review involved title and abstract screening, identifying BECCS-focused articles describing power plants. These plants were compared based on energy performances, using electric and thermal efficiencies but also the Specific Primary Energy Consumption for CO2 avoided (SPECCA) index, modified to include cogeneration configurations, as well as possible additional energy inputs. Results present varying SPECCA values among technologies: calcium looping and solvent-based captures have the highest values, while molten sorbents and chemical looping have lower ones. Molten carbonate fuel cells even demonstrated negative SPECCA due to increased electrical output of the power plant.
Presenter
Letizia CRETAROLA
Politecnico di Milano, Energy Engineering Dpt., ITALY
Presenter's biography
Letizia Cretarola is a PhD student at the Faculty of Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano. She is studying the implementation of Carbon capture and storage systems for bio-energy plants, with a specific focus on molten carbonate fuel cells.
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Co-authors:
F. Viganò, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
Session reference: 4CO.15.1